Memory consumption problem

[Drew Mcpheeters]

I have a simple little test program (see attachment) which does nothing more
than malloc a block and then free the block, repeatatively inside a loop. Yet
the process size (when viewed via ps -l) continues to grow.

Why doesn't the malloc reuse freed memory when it is available?

[Steve Wilson_12]

I tested this on a T600 running 11.00/64, and a 735 running 10.20 and the size
did not grow.