[Help-gsl] Re: [Bug-gsl] memory leak problem with matrices

[Brian Gough]

At Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:34:21 -0600,
Sergey Plis wrote:
> Thanks! I see the line in the documentation:
> Occasionally, |free| can actually return memory to the operating system 
> and make the process smaller.
> 
> Do you know if I can force the occasional part to happen always? 
> Actually, only then, when I am sure that I do not need this memory 
> anymore and want to prevent swapping?

Maybe the source to malloc in the GNU C Library can help you.  As I
think you found, using mmap() is another way to access large amounts
of memory.

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