Re: Memory usage of GNUstep processes

[Chris Vetter]

On Dec 14, 2007, at 6:20 PM, Pete French wrote:
> > Thanks for this info!!! That is general unix behaviour or do Solaris,
> > MacOSX, Linux,... have a different flavour of handling these kind of
> > things
> All have different flavours - I only recently found out that FreeBSD  
> actually
> returns the memory to the kerenl for feallocation after calling  
> free(). I'm
> more used to the traditional Unix way which has a process always  
> growing
> and not returning the memory until it exists, merely reusing it if  
> freed.

That has always been the case for FreeBSD. From the looks of it, OSX  
handles it the same way.

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Chris