Exactly what is the point in that? I've never done any Tcl programming (yet)
but I can't see the reasoning behind this.
It's a multi-tasking OS - everything should be handed back in a friendly
manner. It sounds like a deliberate design ploy on the Tcl interpreter
authors, presumably for performance increases, but it appears to fail as it
causes swapping itself!
Have I got the wrong end of the stick?
Steve Flynn
NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst
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-----Original Message-----
From: Laurent Duperval [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 4:13 PM
To: Mandrake Expert List
Subject: Re: [expert] Netscape & wish using up memory
Wish (and Tcl in general) does not release memory to the OS.
Instead, when
memory is released, it is maintianed in a pool to be reused by the
application. Most likely, the Tcl (wish) script you are using is
using up a
lot of memory and never releasing it. One example is setting a new
variable
or an array and never unsetting it after it is no longer needed. You
have to
look at the code for tkpppoe to see where that happens.
L
--
Laurent Duperval <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Bourgeois, ne niez pas: le frisson de l'envie chante au fond de
votre
prunelle!
-Le commerçant d'Achille Talon
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