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
