> If this was a memory leak, removing the process from memory will NOT
> return consumed memory back to free space, at least not initially
> (Nowadays, operating systems are pretty good about cleaning this up,
> though it is never immediate).
>

Hi,

are you sure about that? If I end a process which has allocated a lot
of memory, the OS will do free the memory. At least good OSes (like
Linux) do that... Never seen the other way, at least on Linux.


Regards
Rodrigo