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To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: XFree86 and swap 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 16 Jul 95 23:44:20 +0930."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Sun, 16 Jul 1995 07:31:20 -0700
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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