Comment # 11 on bug 852482 from Franck Bui

(In reply to Dr. Werner Fink from comment #10)
> (In reply to Franck Bui from comment #9)
> 
> > Well I wrote a simple test case that allocates then frees 1000 objects of 
> > 4096MB. I could see the same behaviour: the resource seemed not to 
> > be released by glibc. However strace(1) showed me that it was (by shrinking 
> > the heap by calling brk(2)).
> 
> Try to get the system swapping then the kernel will try harder to pick up
> the freed memory areas which then results in changes of virtual memory size
> and resident set size.

ok I will try, thanks.

Im the meantime, I'm closing the bug.