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Re: LINUX-MM



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.
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