Date: Sun, 16 Jul 1995 10:14:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Robin Cutshaw <robin@intercore.com> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: rsnow@legend.txdirect.net, paul@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: XFree86 and swap Message-ID: <199507161414.KAA02795@intercore.com> In-Reply-To: <199507161414.XAA01095@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Jul 16, 95 11:44:20 pm
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> > > BTW, It stayed at 14MB when I exited Netscape. > > Either I'm behind the times, or you are failing to understand a fundamental > fact about memory allocation under BSD (and IIRC most unices.) > > Processes can only ever grow, they can never shrink. > Actually, we (the XFree86 team) are testing a new memory allocator that uses mmap for large allocations in the Xserver. We are actually giving back memory now using this technique. robinhome | help
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