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

[dE <de techno gmail com>]

On 06/14/13 17:02, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> 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.

No, filled more than 7GB, swap was at ~350 MB, and then I loaded a small 
table which would otherwise take less than 10 MB memory, but the memory 
usage increased.