Kernel Not Able to Regain Deallocated Memory

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Kedar Pimplikar wrote:

| Hello All,
|
| I have a process, which makes use of recursive function, and in
| each call, allocates lot of memory on stack.
|
| When I run this process on Redhat Linux AS 3.0 (IA-32),
| (Kernel:2.4.21-4.EL) it has a little strange behavior.
|
| Free Memory before running my process: @ 380 MB Free Memory after
| running my process: @ 80 MB
|

You should test with the last kernel:
2.4.21-27.0.2.EL

Regards
jean-seb

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