fwrite consuming lot of memory help !!!!

Hi ,

I am running a C/C++ program on a solaris 5.8 machine. This parituclar
application has a module which saves data to a file. The module uses
fwrite() function to save data.

The fwrite function write about 500 MB of data to a file. The problem
which I am facing is, the memory consumtion of the process increases
during the fwrite but does not decrease once the fwrite is over.

I tried fflush(filepointer) after the fwrite but did not help.

The fwrite function writes all the data in once single fwrite()
statement. I initially thought the increase in memory was because of
this. So I tried writing data in smaller chunks of sizes 100 MB and 50
MB but still the memory utilization of the process does not decreases
once the fwrite is over.

As a result a lot of the main memory is being eaten by this process and
thus making the system very slow.

Please help me .


Thanks in advance

.

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