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

[Kevin]

Hi Tony,

I'm confused even more now -- why do you say it "sounds like you're looking 
at the file cache?"

I see this from task manager->performance tab->physical memory->available. 
This happens on the server machine which is only running cvsservice. My 
client code (perl and java) is on another machine. In summary, when the 
client terminates on the client machine, I see the memory not being given 
back to the OS on the server machine. Even if I stop cvsservice the memory 
is not returned.

Thanks,
Kevin

"Tony Hoyle" <tony.hoyle at march-hare.com> wrote in message 
news:e4vgqu$o2o$1 at paris.nodomain.org...
> 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