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On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 1:26 AM, V.Ravikumar
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I've a daemon process and I'm allocating heap memory for big character
buffers using malloc/free.
Each can take 5MB.

Though I freed/deleted memory allocated for the buffers, the increased
memory during the allocation time is not re-claiming back.This I
observed
using top command.

Yes, I think it's glibc - it may keep your memory, with the idea that
you'll request it again soon anyway.

?? If this is the case then memory should not keep on increase albeit how
long process may run. right?

Right. That's a memory leak, or else you're just not freeing what you
think you are. It's a user-land program, right? 'valgrind' is awesome
for finding leaks and memory still allocated. If it really isn't your
program losing memory someone else will have to jump in but, I can't
imagine any reason a non-broken kernel would accumulate resources.