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UH> There seems to be a "magic border" around 4 MB. Will this be fixed
UH> in 1.2 ??
There is nothing actually wrong with these numbers, you seem to be
disturbed by the fact that the page size of a process does not immediately
shrink to its original size after memory is freed. I won't go into details
about process page allocation, but suffice it to say that there is no fixed
relationship between the number of pages used by a process and the amount
of memory it allocates, so your example does not provide any evidence
whatsoever that memory was not freed. A better account of memory usage
would be provided by a tool such as Purify....
- Chris
-- Christopher Barber cbarber@bbn.com http://guava.bbn.com/~cbarber