From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 22 15: 8: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f31.law8.hotmail.com [216.33.241.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8B74737C398 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 15:08:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hotkaveh@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 48082 invoked by uid 0); 22 Mar 2000 23:08:00 -0000 Message-ID: <20000322230800.48079.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 193.10.111.71 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 15:08:00 PST X-Originating-IP: [193.10.111.71] From: "Kave p.Ram" To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: memory management in BSD Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 23:08:00 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi ! I have a question on memory management in FreeBSD . suppose i write a bogus piece of software which just allocates about 5 Mb of memory without freeing it later . if i run this software 10 times then I have allocated totally about 50 Mb of available memory. (but not at once) my question is : if a dumb person like me forget to free the allocated memory dedicated to this piece of code , how does the system (after the end of execution ) knows that those memory areas that this software used is free to reuse ? thanx for any suggestion :-) /kave ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message