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in thread How can I make my program occupying a lot of memory (sic!)?

It uses an extra 1 GiB as free -m says.

I don't use *nix, but I think that the tool you are using is giving you bad info.

AFAIK: That memory will not be cloned unless the forked child accesses it.

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