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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: memory leak?
From:       Roberto Alsina <ralsina () unl ! edu ! ar>
Date:       1999-11-02 10:54:42
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On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Uwe Thiem wrote:

> On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Marcos Dione wrote:
> 
> > > You can reuse it within the process (if the new allocation fits in
> > > sizewise) but not outside the process.
> > 
> > 	you mean, if the new allocation fits in the freed memory (i.e., is
> > smaller than the previous allocation)? what if I allocate more mem? i get
> > another chunk?
> 
> Smaller or equal, yes. You allocate a bigger piece of mem => new
> memory is allocated.

As a sidenote: if you never allocate any of that RAM again, it will simply
be paged out over time. That's why a very large swap file is always good.

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