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From: SML108@psuvm.psu.edu (Scott Le Grand)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: malloc and free problems
Message-ID: <91111.180106SML108@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 21 Apr 91 22:01:06 GMT
Organization: Penn State University
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Hi, I wish to allocate 10 times as much memory as I really need to initialize
some data.  I use malloc to do this, and then use free to dispose of the 90%
I am not going to use during execution (I am sampling the top 10% of a
randomly generated distribution).  When I use free on it, I find I am still
using the huge amount of memory I started with, even after supposedly
disposing of it.  What is going on here?

Scott