Chris,
Thanks for clearing that up. That's a lot better than what you had thought.
Harold
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 09:07:56PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 05:00:55PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
It was mentioned that the memory size increased when a new X window
(such as an xterm) is opened, but that it does not decrease when that
window is destroyed. This indicates one of a few things to me:
1) We are not freeing our window privates (directly or indirectly).
This seems plausible, but I don't think our window privates are even 1
kilobyte.
I thought I should point out that Cygwin doesn't currently return
deallocated memory to the windows pool. So, the heap only gets larger.
I thought I should point out that, while I wrote the function in
question, the above statement was completely wrong. I was investigating
sbrk() operation for an unrelated matter and noticed that it was
dutifully releasing unused memory back to the system.
I don't know why I thought things behaved any differently than this but
I thought I should correct any misperceptions that I caused.
cgf