From my experience with threads and memory consumption, you have 2 choices.

1. Reuse existing threads over and over, passing in new data to them.

2. Better yet, especially if you are on Linux, use forks instead of threads. The forks will release memory when they exit. The only useful reason for incurring the overhead associated with threads is if you need to share data between threads in real-time. Even then, forks with SysV IPC shared memory works better and faster. Threads is just a lazy easy way of getting IPC, but it comes at a cost, as you have seen.

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In reply to Re: Threads memory consumption by zentara
in thread Threads memory consumption by mojo2405

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