yes.. but when that process terminates... the memory should be returned to the system, right? in which case... the OS never lost track of it.
On Monday 03 December 2001 12:59 pm, you wrote: > On Monday 03 December 2001 12:17 pm, you wrote: > > Ed Tharp wrote: > > > this has been gone into for ever..but what you are veiwing _Might_ have > > > to do with the cache use by linux. I don't think it is a "memory leak" > > > (this ain't your win 95 box) > > > > I don't think there is anything inherent in Linux which will prevent > > memory leaks -- it comes down to care and testing by the programmer. > > AFAIK, memory leaks can be created anywhere C or C++ are used (and > > probably many other languages). > > Yup, I just tested that. Linux does not appear to make any attempt to stop > memory leaks. I wrote a quick program with an infinite loop that > dynamically allocated some memory. Watching top, its memory usage climbed > dramatically. > > There's really no way for Linux to know if I really am using that memory or > not, so I don't see how it could interfere. > > Matt > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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