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Top Forums Programming Why memory allocated through malloc should be freed ? Post 302349162 by jlliagre on Monday 31st of August 2009 08:37:01 AM
Old 08-31-2009
All of a process allocated memory should be made available after it dies otherwise the OS will refuse to launch after some period of time.
What OS are you using ?
How are you measuring the memory usage ?
 

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MEMUSAGESTAT(1) 					     Linux programmer's manual						   MEMUSAGESTAT(1)

NAME
memusagestat - generate graphic from memory profiling data SYNOPSIS
memusagestat [option]... datafile [outfile] DESCRIPTION
memusagestat creates a PNG file containing a graphical representation of the memory profiling data in the file datafile; that file is gen- erated via the -d (or --data) option of memusage(1). The red line in the graph shows the heap usage (allocated memory) and the green line shows the stack usage. The x-scale is either the num- ber of memory-handling function calls or (if the -t option is specified) time. OPTIONS
-o file, --output=file Name of the output file. -s string, --string=string Use string as the title inside the output graph. -t, --time Use time (rather than number of function calls) as the scale for the X axis. -T, --total Also draw a graph of total memory consumption. -x size, --x-size=size Make the output graph size pixels wide. -y size, --y-size=size Make the output graph size pixels high. -?, --help Print a help message and exit. --usage Print a short usage message and exit. -V, --version Print version information and exit. EXAMPLE
See memusage(1). BUGS
To report bugs, see <http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/bugs.html> SEE ALSO
memusage(1), mtrace(1) GNU
2014-09-06 MEMUSAGESTAT(1)
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