David Wetzel schrieb: > Hi, > > just run this and a top in a different terminal. If the memory use of the > process goes down after the > "freeing..." message, all is fine. > > It works as expected on Mac OS X Leopard and NetBSD 3.1 > > You might set your limits to unlimited before running this.
http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Freeing-after-Malloc.html#Freeing-after-Malloc [http://tinyurl.com/yqh6n4] "Occasionally, free can actually return memory to the operating system and make the process smaller. Usually, all it can do is allow a later call to malloc to reuse the space. In the meantime, the space remains in your program as part of a free-list used internally by malloc. There is no point in freeing blocks at the end of a program, because all of the program's space is given back to the system when the process terminates. " Cheers, David _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev
