Re: kernel 2.6.13 - space not freed to kernel

2005-09-05 Thread Nix
On 2 Sep 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] murmured woefully: > The usual malloc() never resets the break address or remaps memory > because it is an expensive operation. This means that when new > data space needs to be allocated, malloc() doesn't have to get > anything from the kernel because it already ha

Re: kernel 2.6.13 - space not freed to kernel

2005-09-02 Thread linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)
On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i have a program that all it does is to allocate memory up until consume 1GB > of > free resources. but when i delete it, it seemed that the space is not free to > kernel, (notice this by looking at "top" or meminfo, as well as debug messages > prinf

kernel 2.6.13 - space not freed to kernel

2005-09-02 Thread tachades
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > i have a program that all it does is to allocate memory up until consume 1GB > of > free resources. but when i delete it, it seemed that the space is not free to > kernel, (notice this by looking at "top" or meminfo, as well as debug > messages > prinf the memory info.

kernel 2.6.13 - space not freed to kernel

2005-09-02 Thread tachades
i have a program that all it does is to allocate memory up until consume 1GB of free resources. but when i delete it, it seemed that the space is not free to kernel, (notice this by looking at "top" or meminfo, as well as debug messages prinf the memory info. using sysinfo (system call). this happe