Memory usage doesn't decrease when free() used
61707
Does malloc reserve more space while allocating memory?
76555
How can I measure the actual memory usage of an application or process?
38112
What is the buffers column in the output from free?
17416
Freeing allocated memory: realloc() vs. free()
26047
when to carefully use free() to free up malloc() used memory?
26831
Should I free allocated memory on abnormal termination?
47504
What is the difference between the memory usage report in System Monitor and the one by free?
21741
How can I monitor the memory usage?
83735
What is the memory overhead of a Java method?
122668
How to see the memory occupied by initialised array vs uninitialised array
6286
How to allocate aligned memory only using the standard library?
85097
Why is the total memory usage reported by Windows Task Manager much higher than the sum of all processes' memory usage?
30771
Why use swap when there is more than enough free space in RAM?
48681
How to clean up the RAM memory that is being used as cache memory?
85075
Actual memory usage of a process
135162
How to empty swap if there is free RAM?
574
Can a java application allocate more memory than specified by jvm startup parameters?