Re: how to forcely release heap in UNIX

manusha1980@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
What *exactly* are you doing that you need to do this?


im diagnosing an application that uses more memory than required and
found the problem arises because of this behavior of linux. so im
trying to make sure the problem is indeed that by forcely flushing the
memory.


Please explain what you mean with
'uses more memory'.

In a demand-paged virtual-memory system,
the resource used is only address space
of the process. The reservation does
not affect other processes on the system.

As long as the memory is not accessed,
it does not use physical memory chips.

Would you now please explain simply
what you're attempting to achieve?

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Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio (at) iki fi

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