Re[2]: [Gc] dynamic structures and gc

[Ivan Maidanski]

Hi Mark. 

I don't see anything strange. You free around 6 KiB according to the code you provided and in the output below the difference between the third heap-size-in-use value and the second one is something around that 6 K.

Regards

Mark Richards wrote:
>     On 9/2/2011 15:26, Ivan Maidanski wrote:  GC_get_heap_size() - GC_get_free_bytes()  
> Hello Ivan,
> 
> Scratching my bald spot here...
> 
> I tried this.  As a reference I am also issuing ps v [pid] to get memory usage.
> 
> Start of my test case:
> 
> Heap size = 0
> PID     TTY      STAT   TIME  MAJFL   TRS   DRS   RSS %MEM COMMAND
> 24213 pts/3    S      0:01         17       164      6591  2896  4.7     ./aemnet
> 
> After the allocation loop:
> 
> Heap size = 442368
> PID     TTY      STAT   TIME  MAJFL   TRS   DRS   RSS %MEM COMMAND
> 24213 pts/3    S          0:02     17       164      7315  3612  5.9 .    /aemnet
> 
> After Free: 
> Heap size = 438272
> PID     TTY      STAT   TIME  MAJFL   TRS   DRS   RSS %MEM COMMAND
> 24213 pts/3    S      0:02         17       164      7315  3612  5.9     ./aemnet
> 
> Strange...
>