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From: kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley	)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Server Does Not Free Widget Resources
Keywords: widget resources, memory leak
Message-ID: <1990Dec7.214120.13636@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 7 Dec 90 21:41:20 GMT
References: <593@censun1.UUCP> <1990Dec7.175818.12931@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov> <1990Dec7.212838.28921@news.arc.nasa.gov>
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <1990Dec7.212838.28921@news.arc.nasa.gov> schoch@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Steve Schoch) writes:
>In article <1990Dec7.175818.12931@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov>, kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley	) writes:
>|> You will never see the server process size shrink or reduce.  That's
>|> just how malloc/free work.
>
>That's what I would have said too, except that he said the problem happened
>on NCD X Terminal servers also.  NCD terminals don't run Unix, or a multi-
>user OS in general so I would think they would use a different implementation
>of malloc/free (The UNIX version of free makes the memory available to
>future calls to malloc() but does not give the memory back to the kernel.)

I don't know about NCD, but I was told that the Tek X Terminals use XINU,
which I presume uses a similar memory allocation scheme.

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Kaleb Keithley                      Jet Propulsion Labs
kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov

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