On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 03:50:19 -0400, ABothe <[email protected]> wrote:
First, thanks for the response! When executing the program at your own, look at the task manager... It simply doesn't do it! Is there somebody who can make it possible for the GC to give allocated memory right back??
The GC does not release memory back to the OS in all circumstances, it may hold onto the memory, even though it isn't allocated.
Part of the reason for this is it may just not be possible. IIRC, on Linux systems, all your heap-allocated memory must be contiguous, meaning that if you deallocate holes, you can't release them back to the OS.
There is also a design bug in the array allocator (which you probably have not encountered, since you did not append), where it will hold onto memory even if nothing is referencing it because the LRU cache is referencing it. I am going to fix that in the near future.
-Steve
