@wjwwood Thank you for the continuing help. I ran the 'talker' example from the 'lastSuccessfulBuild' link that you sent. The virtual memory usage is still in the hundreds of megabytes range. Screenshot is attached. tco 7359 0.0 0.1 323340 10756 pts/0 Sl+ 16:24 0:00 bin/talker Are you aware of any fixed-sized buffer allocations that would account for the ~323 Megs used for this simple example? nm. --- [Visit Topic](https://discourse.ros.org/t/fast-rtps-memory-usage-please-help/1739/6) or reply to this email to respond. If you do not want to receive messages from ros-users please use the unsubscribe link below. If you use the one above, you will stop all of ros-users from receiving updates. ______________________________________________________________________________ ros-users mailing list ros-users@lists.ros.org http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users Unsubscribe: