Higher memory consumption in RHEL 4

prakashmodi · 09-24-2008, 09:40 AM

I have application that I ran on RHEL 3 and RHEL 4 machines and I see huge difference in memory usage. So created simple test program and I noticed that when it reaches main in my sample it takes more than double (25M vs 10M) memory. Does anyone know the insight of this behaviour. In our regular application this difference leads to running out of memory. We are using gcc-3.3.3 to compiling our app and sample program.

Thanks
Prakash

DaExecuter · 09-25-2008, 08:30 AM

What is the intention of your program? Is it trying to access some kernel space shared memory? Do u know how to use a debugger that can tell you the ASM steps for debugging?