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Uwe Thiem ha scritto:
> On 11 January 2007 10:38, JT Justman wrote:
>> b.n. wrote:
>>> I wasn't aware of this, I must confess. Is there any way to prevent it,
>>> so that when you close the app, it cleans the libs from memory? On my
>>> main desktop is not a problem, but it would be nice to know just in case.
>> Not sure how the cleanup works, but these things will just get paged off
>> to swap if you aren't using them. I wouldn't worry about it unless swap
>> is at a premium.
>
> The original poster must be kidding, and you are guessing, right?
>
> As soon as a library isn't used by any application any more, the memory it
> occupies is freed. Of course, it might still be cached - but that doesn't
> hurt at all.
Ok, that's what *I* did know.
Now, who is right? :)
m.
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