How to avoid running out of memory in high memory usage application? C / C++

Question

I have written a converter that takes openstreetmap xml files and converts them to a binary runtime rendering format that is typically about 10% of the original size. Input file

Answer 1

You may not be allocating and deallocating memory in an optimum manner. As others have pointed out, you may be leaking memory and not knowing it. Debugging and optimizing memory allocation will take time.

If you don't want to spend time optimizing memory usage, why not try the Conservative Garbage Collector? It's a plug-in replacement for malloc()/new and free(). In fact, free() is a no-op, so you can just remove those calls from your program. If, instead, you hand-optimize your program and manage a pool of memory as previously suggested, you'll end up doing a lot of the work that the CGC already does for you.