Re^2: memory deallocation

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Actually some OSen do allow you to shrink your process size with sbrk (FreeBSD for one). I believe if your perl is using the system malloc you'll get this behavior there (FreeBSD). But in general you should only count on the behavior described above.

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Re^3: memory deallocation by ikegami (Patriarch) on Oct 01, 2007 at 14:40 UTC
Windows is such a platform too. On Windows ActivePerl 5.8.8, the `undef` causes the memory usage to go from 171MB to 149MB. I wonder why so little memory is released.	[reply] [d/l]

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