> Hmm, I'm wondering. I haev this application, it allocates 10
> blocks each 1 megs in size. Then I free() 5 of those blocks, but
> the program is still eating 10 megs of memory.
>
> Is this right?
Using the `normal' libc malloc - yes.
There are other mallocs out there which try to return the memory to
the kernel though.
-cw
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