Memory allocation on RS6000

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Memory allocation on RS6000

Hi,

I have a simple C program that allocates a bunch of memory and free's it
immediately.
When I run this program, I do not see this memory being reclaimed by the
OS(as observed
by top-5.6). A similar program on Windows NT works as expected(i.e memory
usage
decreases when memory is free'd).

Any ideas why??

Appreciate any advise you can offer..

Regards,
R

// Here is a code snippet:

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
if (argc == 2)
{
int num_chunks = atoi(argv[1])/1000;
char **buffer[1000];

for (i=0; i<=num_chunks; i++)
{
buffer[i] = (char *) malloc(1000);
free(buffer[i]);
}
return 0;
}
printf("Usage!! %s <memory size> \n",argv[0]);

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