On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Ken Rice <krice@freeswitch.org> wrote:
FreeSWITCH doesn’t eat up all the memory... It just eats up what it needs and just doesn’t give it back....
On top of that, even giving it back via free() may not make much of a difference. For any Linux process, even after doing free() in a memory block, there is no guarantee that libc will return the memory to the operating system, and in most practical cases most likely does not, but rather keep it as a free chunk in their own pool for the next malloc request. For libc to return it it probably has to fulfill a bunch of requirements (full page 4k returned etc) which are rarely, if ever, met. *Moises Silva **Manager, Software Engineering*** msilva@sangoma.com Sangoma Technologies 100 Renfrew Drive, Suite 100, Markham, ON L3R 9R6 Canada t. +1 800 388 2475 (N. America) t. +1 905 474 1990 x128 f. +1 905 474 9223 **<http://www.sangoma.com/contact?utm_source=signature&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email+signatures> Products<http://sangoma.com/products?utm_source=signature&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email%2Bsignatures> | Solutions<http://sangoma.com/solutions?utm_source=signature&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email%2Bsignatures> | Events<http://sangoma.com/about_us/events?utm_source=signature&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email%2Bsignatures> | Contact<http://www.sangoma.com/contact?utm_source=signature&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email%2Bsignatures> | Wiki<http://wiki.sangoma.com/?utm_source=signature&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email%2Bsignatures> | Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sangoma-VoIP-Cards/43578453335?utm_source=signature&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email%2Bsignatures> | Twitter<http://www.twitter.com/sangoma?utm_source=signature&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email%2Bsignatures>`| | YouTube<http://www.youtube.com/sangomatechnologies?utm_source=signature&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email%2Bsignatures>