Subject: Re: quicky perl question
From: Michael Fowler (michael@shoebox.net)
Date: Mon Nov 12 2001 - 14:45:25 AKST
On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 11:42:33AM -0900, Matthew Schumacher wrote:
> So the question is, how to I kill my array so that the memory is
> recovered by the system?
You can't, at least on most versions of Unix. A process cannot return
memory to the system until the process dies, it can only reuse the memory
internally. That's what the documentation you were reading was trying to
tell you.
Michael
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