[VPM] deallocating memory of multi-threaded server while IDLE.

[Eric Frazier]

Hi,

Not that it matters that much, but I believe this is a OS level issue,
not even Perl.

Thanks,

Eric 

On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 23:58, Darren Duncan wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Jeremy Aiyadurai wrote:
> > how do i free up memory when a multi-threaded process is idle.
> > my problem is when ever i create a thread, it eats up more memory. when the 
> > thread is done, the thread disappears, but the memory is not freed (by 
> > looking at windows task manager).
> > so i'd like to free up memory when the process is idle.
> > thanks in advance for any help.
> 
> In my understanding, Perl itself has a limitation that, while it can reuse 
> memory allocated to it, it can not or will never return any of its memory 
> to the system (except when it exits).  I don't think you can get around 
> this, and it would affect every platform.  I could be wrong, though, about 
> the general limitation.  (I also wouldn't be surprised if Parrot didn't 
> have that limitation.) -- Darren Duncan