Re: Memory leaks

[Konrad Kokoszkiewicz <draco@mi.com.pl>]

>   Since I am converting to the mint opertating system, I was curious how
>   memory allocation compared. I find that there is 448 bytes lost each 
>   time I load and unload a program in a multiuser environment. This leads
>   to fragmentation of memory. A small test of loading and unloading the 
>   same program from the same terminal 3 times resulted in going from 9
>   free blocks of memory to 13 free blocks, with a loss of 1344 bytes
>   available, 448 per iteration.

I telnetted to my TT to do the test. I generally ran programs, and did
'free' when they terminated. Results:

login: 18576144 free, 11 blocks, largest 14920944
ls:    18576032 free, 11 blocks, largest 14920928
ls:    18576032 free, 11 blocks, largest 14920928
pico:  18576032 free, 11 blocks, largest 14920928
logout
login: 18559760 free, 10 blocks, largest 14920944
logout

Then I logged in a hour later and I saw exactly the same as by the first
time:

      18576144 free, 11 blocks, largest 14920924

1.14.7 here, TT030/TOS 3.06, 20 MB RAM.

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