Re: shrinking memory (was Re: Modperl/Apache deficiencies... Memoryusage.)

[Doug MacEachern]

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';

if usemymalloc='y', then Perl uses Perl's malloc, in which case memory is
not returned to the os.