Date: Sun, 16 Jul 1995 07:31:20 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: rsnow@legend.txdirect.net (Rob Snow), FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree86 and swap Message-ID: <199507161433.HAA03061@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 16 Jul 95 23:44:20 %2B0930." <199507161414.XAA01095@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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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. Fundamental? BSD malloc doesn't free memory back to the system, but GNU malloc and several others do. We plan to switch to one of these other mallocs (not a GPL'd one) at some point in the future (perhaps 2.2). -DG
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