Hi,

I cannot reproduce this problem on my side, here are steps:

1. Use a simplest case, in a loop to allocate small memory and wait 5 seconds in each iteration...elapsed timewill be10 minutes. See below mem_growth.c

#include 
#define MAX_NUM 120 /* total 120 times to allocate memory, elapsed time 600s */
int main()

{

char *str[MAX_NUM];

int i;
    for (i=0; i
        str[i] = (char *) malloc (16*sizeof(char));

        sleep (5); /* wait 5 seconds, each time */

    }
    return 1;

}

2.gcc -g mem_growth.c -o mem_growth

3.inspxe-cl -collect mi3 -- ./mem_growth

4. In other console, do
a)inspxe-cl -command memory-growth-start -r r001mi3 ; wait for awhile
b) inspxe-cl -command memory-growth-end -r r001mi3

5. In original console, after 10 minutes, will see -
[root@NHM02 problem_report]# inspxe-cl -collect mi3 -- ./mem_growth
Used suppression file(s): []

2 new problem(s) found
1 Memory growth problem(s) detected
1 Memory leak problem(s) detected

6. You may useinspxe-gui to check, in detail

Regards, Peter

I also build example code / testedmemory-growthwith non-root user, set result directory in /tmp. It works.

My inspector XE 2011 version:
[peter@NHM02 problem_report]$ inspxe-cl -version
Intel Inspector XE 2011 Update 8 (build 206270) Command Line tool
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