On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 10:02:16AM +0800, zwu.ker...@gmail.com wrote: > From: Zhi Yong Wu <wu...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > > Some code pathes forget to free memory on exit.
Same as with the fd's, kernel will free all memory for us at exit(). If there's lots of memory allocated, it may be even faster to leave the unallocation process to kernel as it will do it in one go, while the application would unnecessarily free it chunk by chunk. david -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
