Re: GTK free function doesn't appear to have any affect.

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 3:27 AM, dE <de techno gmail com> wrote:
> I was monitoring the memory usage before and after execution of
> g_object_unref and gtk_list_store_clear, and it didnt change the memory
> usage by a bit.
>
> Is this normal (am I doing it right?)?

What are you monitoring, and how ?

It is i normal that freeing memory does not change the resource
consumption of the process. The freed memory will be available for
reuse by malloc, but malloc does not immediately return the memory to
the OS.