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by ksherlock
844 days ago
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Well... "Since the missile will explode when it hits it's target or at the end of it's flight, the ultimate in garbage collection is performed without programmer intervention." https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.ada/c/E9bNCvDQ12k/m/1t... "to my surprise the cp command didn't exit. Looking at the source again, I found that cp disassembles its hash table data structures nicely after copying (the forget_all call). Since the virtual size of the cp process was now more than 17 GB and the server only had 10 GB of RAM, it did a lot of swapping." (I believe GNU cp was updated to not free up structures at exiting due after this). https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2014-08/msg0001... |
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