free memory

[Steve West]

I am running Fedora 9 x86 64 bit. I have 8 gigs of memory in the system.I wrote a program to malloc 4 gigs of memory space. Free shows nearly the same result before and during the execution of the program. Why does free not show that 4 gigs where allocated and used? How do I show the true memory usage?

Steve
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