[cvsnt] Re: Resource leaks in 2.5.xx ???

[Tony Hoyle]

Kevin wrote:
> other words, the memory is not given back to the OS (Windows XP Pro SP2).
> Also, we've seen this similar behavior on 2 other machines (also XP SP2).

That sounds like you're looking at the file cache.  It's impossible for an 
application to cause that in a modern OS.

All operating systems try to store things like file I/O in memory - unused 
memory is effectively wasted... in an ideal situation the free memory would 
always be zero since it would be used to its maximum effectiveness - no OS is 
'ideal' though (probably not possible in the real world).

Tony