Re: [Q]

[Julian M Catchen <julian catchen org>]

I am not sure how Balsa manages its memory, but you can change the size of 
a memory segment to a larger or smaller one with realloc().

julian


On 2002.01.27 13:48 Pawel Salek wrote:
> On 2002.01.26 12:34 Emmanuel wrote:
>> 	Hi all,
>> I have a big mailbox (>3500 messages) and with top I see that when this 
>> mailbox is opened balsa takes 16M. That's a lot but I checked the mbox 
>> file, it is about 16M also, so I think it's OK. But if I close the 
>> mailbox Balsa does not release the memory. Is it just because of how 
>> the memory is managed by the kernel or glib, or is it bad practice from 
>> us?
> 
> I do not know of any way (apart from playing with brk) to shrink the 
> memory segment extended by libc when calling malloc/calloc. The memory 
> released with free() is available for subsequent malloc calls, though.
> 
> -pawel
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