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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