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- From: S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk (Scott A. McIntyre)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer
- Subject: Memory clean up?
- Message-ID: <C1DC7F.775@newcastle.ac.uk>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 17:21:14 GMT
- Reply-To: S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk
- Organization: University of Durham
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- I know virtually nothing on programming the NeXT (but I've ordered the Garfinkel / Mahoney
- book) and want to know *why* the swapfile doesn't decrease or why some sort of a utility
- can't be written that *makes* it decrease.
-
- My understanding is that when appications run out of real ram to play with, they use
- virtual ram, aka the swapfile. In theory, applications should clean up the mess they make
- with VM, but as my perpetually growing swapfile shows, this is rarely the case.
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- So, in theory, why can't a application be made that pokes through the swapfile, and RAM in
- general, looking for things that don't seem to have an owner, and deletes them.
-
- I'm speaking naively here, but would appreciate an answer from someone who knows,
- Thanks!
-
- Scott
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- EMAIL: S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk OR scott@shrug.dur.ac.uk (NeXTmail)
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- SUN Computers: "Nice chips, shame about her OS"
- "If a virtual tree falls in a virtual forest, does it make a virtual sound?"
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