Thread: What can happen if you forget to deallocate memory?

  1. 06-16-2008 #16
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cactus_Hugger View Post
    Depends completely on the computer, OS, and what's in the system at the time.
    What if the page file is full? (or non-existant?) Granted, in Windows, the page file seems to be unbounded in limit (probably a tweak somewhere I don't know, but my pagefile seems to be 4GB at the moment...) Now, my Linux box, the swap will not grow to infinity - there's are hard limit at ~1.5GB, RAM + swap combined. Less if I turn swap off. The man pages state this:
    True. OS dependant. But it would show that every OS does not behave the same, so in sense, the original statement that it would starve all other applications is untrue.
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    You mean it's included as a crutch to help ancient programmers limp along without them having to relearn too much.

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    Hmm, that issue is kind of lame.
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    I have been running Linux on my computer with 2GB ram without any swap for quite a few months and no problems so far =).
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    No swap at all? Why?
    I have a 1GB swap partition on mine and according to gkrellm it barely gets used but still, why not swap?
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    I used to have a swap partition, but I have never seen it used at all, so I thought I don't need it =). I have a ram usage monitor on my gnome desktop and I have never seen the ram usage go above 1GB (disk cache doesn't count), except when I run something I write that leaks memory like crazy =). It makes my partition table simpler.
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