I memset the whole block to non-zero. It was just a quick test, so didn't do
much further.
-- Nathan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeffrey Hutzelman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 8:55 AM
> To: Neulinger, Nathan
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [OpenAFS-devel] AFSD memory footprint
>
>
> On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Neulinger, Nathan wrote:
>
> > I did some limited testing allocating, writing, and freeing
> a couple large
> > chunks of memory. On linux, it definately returns the
> memory to the O/S when
> > you free() it with redhat-6.2 or 7.1. (I think glibc 2.1 and 2.2
> > respectively.)
> >
> > I couldn't get hp or solaris to give me any meaningful
> results. (It didn't
> > look like malloc'd data was showing up in ps SZ column, but
> I may have been
> > doing something stupid.)
>
> Did you actually write into the memory, or just malloc it? On many
> platforms, pages aren't allocated to your process until you actually
> touch them.
>
>
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