#15996: heap memory is not released to system
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Reporter: X512 | Owner: nobody
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Unscheduled
Component: System/libroot.so | Version: R1/Development
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Platform: All |
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Comment (by pulkomandy):
This is expected. The team preserves its heap unless the memory is needed
elsewhere (the low_resource_manager would request it to release things).
Releasing pages to the system pool and then reclaiming them when a new
allocation happens would waste a lot of performance.
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/15996#comment:1>
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