On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 6:14 PM, David Sterba <d...@jikos.cz> wrote: > 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(). hi, can you let me know the pointer to exit() said by you?
> > 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. got it, thanks. > > david -- Regards, Zhi Yong Wu -- 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/
