2008/4/7, nico <nbd free fr>:
Paul Davis a écrit :
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> it is the operating system that does this for you, not GTK.
>
wow my operating system is so clever ;-)
> the only way i know that you can stop this is to run something before
> your application that starts up which will completely clear what is
> called the "buffer cache". there are a number of ways of doing this. one
> can be to run a grep across the whole filesystem.
If I understand correct a command like :
"grep -R dummy /" ?
> another is a small
> program that allocates more and more memory until it fails.
>
Do you have an example for that ? Like always creating a big object in
a for ever loop ?
He means, make a huge program that fills the entire memory, forcing the OS to unload unneeded files. That will be like a virus.
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>
Thanks !
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