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Subject: Re: KConfig again
From: Uwe Thiem <uwe () uwix ! alt ! na>
Date: 1999-05-16 2:33:24
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On Sat, 15 May 1999 pbrown@redhat.com wrote:
> On Sun, 16 May 1999, Steffen Hansen wrote:
>
> > Maybe the app should decide for itself if entries should be cached in RAM
> > (in a QMap).
>
> We have talked a little more and now it seems like putting the entries in
> a size limited QCache might be a good idea, which the cache flushed out
> periodically.
>
> However, I am under the impression that once an application has allocated
> memory, even if it frees it, it doesn't go back into the system memory
> pool. It keeps it until it exits. Isn't this the case in the majority of
> UNIX systems?
At least under Linus this is wrong. if a whole page is freed it is
returned to the system.
Uwe
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