Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 Oct 1998 10:43:49 +1300 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: 'disposable' dirty pages [was: Out Of Memory in v. 2.1] |
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On Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 12:02:06PM -0500, Ely Wilson wrote:
> Hmm, I'm wondering. I haev this application, it allocates 10 > blocks each 1 megs in size. Then I free() 5 of those blocks, but > the program is still eating 10 megs of memory. > > Is this right?
Using the `normal' libc malloc - yes.
There are other mallocs out there which try to return the memory to the kernel though.
-cw
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