> From: Doug MacEachern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 14:04:09 -0700 (PDT)
> Subject: Re: shrinking memory (was Re: Modperl/Apache deficiencies... Memory usage.)
>
> On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Stas Bekman wrote:
>
> > What do you say? 1003520 bytes are returned to OS when @x goes out of
> > scope. Note that this doesn't happen if you use a global @x instead.
>
> because under linux Perl defaults to system malloc:
> % perl -V:usemymalloc
> usemymalloc='n';
This implies that on another OS, the system malloc() might be different? Right??
> if usemymalloc='y', then Perl uses Perl's malloc, in which case memory is
> not returned to the os.
Now, does this mean that if usemyalloc='y', memory is not returned to the OS, no matter
what the OS is, or is this OS dependent as well??
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