On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 10:19:17AM -0300, Luis Hernán Otegui wrote: > jumps, but with SA keeping the memory, and never releasing it.
Well, there's really no way to do that at the application level -- it's up to the OS. Typically what happens is: - process wants X memory - process gets X memory allocated from kernel - process uses X memory - process frees (free()) X memory - kernel keeps memory allocated to process figuring it'll use it again (and to avoid all the overhead of cleanup/reallocation, etc.) So the goal needs to be: don't use the memory in the first place. Anything after that is only fixable by restarting the process. -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "But these go to 11..." - Spinal Tap
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