Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: clearing memory | Date | Mon, 01 Apr 1996 20:07:43 -0700 | From | Drew Eckhardt <> |
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In message <199603281546.KAA19740@chaos>, sen@math.msu.edu writes: >What is the best way to clear memory of processes that have ended? are syst?
All memory is freed when a program terminates.
>I recently installed Netscape-2.01 on my system. I am running 1.3.73 >and have 48 MB of memory and frequently have two users logged in a >running Netscape. It really crawls. Loading and reloading take much >longer than with the v. 1.1 I used before. Sometimes, the system hangs >or it seems necessary to reboot to claim the memory after one of the NS >processes has been killed. > >Any ideas?
Unfortunately, older X server binaries haven't been linked against the munmap(2)ing free(3) code; so any space for pixmaps, etc. will remain in use until the X server is restarted.
The way Netscape works, this can be _quite_ substantial (I've gotten my Xserver up to 40M).
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