Re: calloc/free: a preplexing observation

From: Clark S. Cox III (clarkcox3_at_gmail.com)
Date: 01/31/05 

Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:55:53 -0500

On 2005-01-31 12:18:44 -0500, boris@borisland.com said:

> Hi!
>
> I'm seeking some answers about what seems to be a memory leak.

[snip]

> ... since the
> "largeArray" is about 4000*4000 of double which should be about 16MB -
> and I see usage of > 100MB after a few hundred iterations.

Do the math again:

4,000 * 4,000
= 16,000,000

If sizeof(double) is 8 then:

8B * 16,000,000
= 128,000,000B
≈ 122 MB

So your usage of > 100MB seems to be right in line with what should be
expected. 

-- 
Clark S. Cox, III
clarkcox3@gmail.com

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