Messages in this thread |  | | | From | (Alexander Sanda) | | Subject | Re: Possible Kernel Memory Leak in 2.0.28 | | Date | Sat, 01 Feb 1997 01:15:26 GMT |
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In article <m0vpkZF-0005FfC@lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk>, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) wrote:
>> any rate, this deallocates the memory and stabilized my system.. Is there >> any reason why shared memory belonging to defunct processes is not >> automatically deallocated? > >SYS5 designers decided it would be useful to be able to leave this sort of >state around for other programs to reopen. Yes its stupid, but we are >kind of stuck with it. Gimp should create the shared memory, attach it, >delete it and then use (the delete occurs on the end of the last attach) > Does this mean: If I have running a process which allocated some chunks of shared memory, and that process crashes, the shmem won't be deallocated ?
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