Re: Memory leak or Absorption

[Eric Richards <erockus at earthlink dot net>]

>Well, the basic gist of it is that your program allocates memory,  
>uses that memory, and then when done with it, does not free it up to  
>be re-used by the operating system.  Thus, from the OS point of view,  
>your program is consuming more and more and more memory without  
>freeing it back up.  This is why it is called a memory leak - because  
>it is from the point of view of the OS.
>
>  
>
Ahh I see, from the OS pov.

I guess from the app's pov its absorption.

Well good to know.

Thanks.

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