free memory

[Bill Davidsen]

Steve West wrote:
> I am running Fedora 9 x86 64 bit. I have 8 gigs of memory in the 
> system.I wrote a program to malloc 4 gigs of memory space. Free shows 
> nearly the same result before and during the execution of the program. 
> Why does free not show that 4 gigs where allocated and used? How do I 
> show the true memory usage?
>  
You already have. Your program is not using that memory, or using it like a 
sparse file or something.

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