Python not giving free memory back to the os get's me in real problems ...

Grant Edwards grante at visi.com
Thu Apr 26 09:41:56 EDT 2007


On 2007-04-26, Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
>> I'm a bit fuzzy on this, but I don't think there _is_ a
>> practical way to "return memory to the OS" in many OSes.
>
> That's not true at all. Most C libraries these days manage
> to return memory to the operating system.

[...]

Thanks for providing a real answer.  Like I said in my post, my
information wasn't very current.

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