From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from max.phys.uu.nl (max.phys.uu.nl [131.211.32.73]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA17113 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:39:39 -0500 Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 01:33:53 +0100 (CET) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: LINUX-MM In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Matthias Arnold , Linux MM List-ID: On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Rik van Riel wrote: > >On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Matthias Arnold wrote: > > > >> Thanks for your reply.Unfortunately the memory is not (at least > >> not completely) returned to the system after the program has > >> finished (as the OS comand 'free' tells me). > > > >Hmm, what version of the kernel are you using? > > > >IIRC there's a slight bug in some of the newer kernels > > I think at it as a feature and not a bug ;). It is a bug when it causes other programs to fail miserably... Rik -- Open Source: you deserve to be in control of your data. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Linux Memory Management site: http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/Linux-MM/ | | Nederlandse Linux documentatie: http://www.nl.linux.org/ | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm my@address' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/Linux-MM/