I am not a guru on OSes but I didn't think that was the case, or services like ftp, apache and mysql could consume a system within hours. I wrote a very simple c++ program: 
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>

void main (void )

{

        int *a[10000];

        long c = 0;
        do
        {
                a[c] = new int[1000] ;

        }
        while ( c++ < 10001 );

        c = 0;
        do
        {
                delete a[c];
        }
        while ( c++ < 10001 );

        sleep( 20 );
}

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the above program gives back the memory to the system, and top shows no abnormal memory usage. Removing the second loop results in an approxmiately 40MB memory usage.

I tested this on Redhat 7.3 (2.4.18-3) gcc version 2.96 20000731

edited: Mon May 5 14:02:53 2003 by jeffa - code tags

In reply to Re: Re: Memory leak when using hash 'references' by Anonymous Monk
in thread Memory leak when using hash 'references' by sureshr

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