Hi Sunil,

The behavior you observed is pretty much expected.
Even though in the second version of the program, you are not creating
any threads, the moment you link with the libpthread library, there is
a some significant memory overhead implicitly introduced. The C library
(libc) will have to do some considerable additional initialization.
Concepts such as TLS (thread local storage) will come into play.
Eventhough, the program may single threaded, libc will have to play
safe (acquiring and releasing locks, when dealing with global or static
data).
Also, the pthread library will have to "setup the scene" for multiple
threads.

Hope this explains your question.

Thanks!
-Rajesh

som wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have two version of a c program on HPUX-11.2.
> First is without threading, and second is with threading in which I
> could chose how much thread or no threads to use.
>
> I run first one, and check memory usage thru glance and note the memory
> usage in DATA segment for whole run.
> Now I run the second one and view the memory usage thru glance then I
> foun the memory usage are just double from the start.
> I have run with 0 threads option too, yet it's occupying double memory.
> while database is same.
>
> I have tried with commenting the initialization part which is used for
> threads, still no clue. and results are same.
>
> Now I am trying to compile it using purifier, but still I need your
> kind suggestions, that where I am missing , or what approach I should
> follow.
>
> Thanks in advace.
>
> Regards
> Sunil Somani