From: "John T. Williams" <jowillia@vt.edu>
To: Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@virgin.net>
Cc: jtwilliams@vt.edu,
Wen Guangcheng <wen.guangcheng@cnt.sp.qnes.nec.co.jp>,
linux-c-programming <linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Newbie question on malloc()
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 13:52:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1086198752.29988.21.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16574.4399.288522.256729@cerise.nosuchdomain.co.uk>
What you never had win98 crash on you after running for an hour? ;)
May statement is based on something I remember vaguely from my OS class
2 years ago, so I'm quite happy to believe I'm wrong. I remember there
was some major issue with how win98 handled dynamic allocated memory,
but I can't exactly remember what.
After googling a little I seems that win95 had some problems with
Garbage Collection not win98.
On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 13:41, Glynn Clements wrote:
> John T. Williams wrote:
>
> > As I understand it, that is entirely up to the operation system. Linux
> > and NT Kernel systems do reclaim unfreed memory, however I believe one
> > the major problems with Win98 was that it did not.
> >
> > Anyone with more information feel free to correct me
>
> I very much doubt that the above is accurate.
>
> It may be that Win98 had some specific memory leaks, but any OS which,
> in the general case, failed to recover a process' memory upon
> termination would run out of memory very quickly.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-02 17:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-02 11:48 Newbie question on malloc() Wen Guangcheng
2004-06-02 17:08 ` John T. Williams
2004-06-02 17:41 ` Glynn Clements
2004-06-02 17:52 ` John T. Williams [this message]
2004-06-03 7:41 ` Glynn Clements
2004-06-03 11:32 ` Micha Feigin
2004-06-04 2:11 ` Glynn Clements
2004-06-04 12:31 ` Micha Feigin
2004-06-02 18:37 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2004-06-03 1:34 ` Micha Feigin
2004-06-03 19:42 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2004-06-03 23:44 ` Micha Feigin
2004-06-04 8:06 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2004-06-02 17:18 ` Glynn Clements
2004-06-03 1:28 ` Micha Feigin
2004-06-03 7:23 ` Luciano Moreira - igLnx
2004-06-03 7:59 ` Glynn Clements
2004-06-03 22:25 ` John T. Williams
2004-06-03 23:24 ` Paul Gimpelj
2004-06-04 0:14 ` John T. Williams
2004-06-04 2:35 ` Glynn Clements
2004-06-03 23:53 ` Glynn Clements
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