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Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 21:01:51 -0300 (BRT)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Karthikeyan Nathillvar wrote:

>  2) I tried to read from /proc/<pid>/statm file. But, the process memory
> usage seems to be always in an increasing trend, even though lot of
> freeing is going on inside. All the values, size, resident, are always
> increasing.

Remember that when you call free() glibc may decide to just
keep the memory for itself and not give it back to the OS,
so the memory is still in use by the process...

regards,

Rik
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