On Mon, 31 May 2004, bopolissimus X platypus wrote: .. > following Gideon Guillen's comment, i looked again. > > my bug. it's Evolution 1.4.5 on Mandrake 10.
the brk() / sbrk() system call WILL NOT RELEASE MEMORY until the process exits. So even if malloc() memory is free()'ed by the process, the actual RSS WILL NOT GET REDUCED. it's really the behavior of the underlying system calls which do memory allocation. anyway the huge RSS you may note is mostly swapped out. --- Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mosaic Communications, Inc. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
