Re: [xml] Memory not going away..

[Rich Salz <rsalz datapower com>]

> Coincidentally, if I have system with 3 GB of RAM, and I allocate and free
> 3GB of ram in my process, but then do not exit.. any other processes would
> be forced into swap waiting for my process to complete and free up
> resources (namely, 3GB of RAM).

No.  Your free'd pages are more likely to be swapped out than memory
that's really being used...

> In Linux, calls to free in the process
> return the memory to the OS.

Memory allocated via mmap() is released via munmap(); memory allocated
via sbrk() is not releasedd back to the operating system.

At least according to the version of GLibc that I just read.

        /r$

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