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Re: Memory Usage with fork() on Linuxby grantm (Parson) |
| on Feb 01, 2011 at 08:33 UTC ( [id://885437]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
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I can confirm that yes, on Linux when the forked process exits (or even if it dies unexpectedly) all the memory it is using will be returned to the operating system.
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