From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-08-26T03:46:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Can Anyone Explain This Memory Leak?

On Sat, 26 Aug 2006, Cliff Cyphers wrote:

> This isn't considered bizarre behavior and in fact is a feature.  Even after
> you shutdown an application it keeps shared libs and such in memory (cache).
> That way the system as a whole is much quicker when you access applications
> that call these shared libs.  No point in having the overhead of re-loading
> things into memory over and over again.  If you get to the point where you
> use additional applications and there isn't free ram it flushes some of the
> cached objects out so that you don't have to swap.

convincing zed of this might be hard ;-)

-a
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