On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 17:16, Nicholas Leippe wrote: > > Memory can only ever increase for processes which do memory allocation > > using brk() - there is no way to return such memory to the OS. > > > > -d > > "no way to return such memory to the OS" > > IMO that constitutes a leak. It is in effect a lost resource where the > system is concerned. > > Why is this so?
Back in prehistory because there was no mmu just segmentation in the Unix world. Modern systems do hand back memory and don't use brk() for all their allocations. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
