Actually, yes, I am sure. Windows (2000 and up) clean the garbage once
every 5 seconds by default (It could be something different, but it is
close to that), customizable by a couple of registry settings. In Linux,
this depends on which kernel version, and possibly which vendor supplied
said kernel as to how this works out, as it is dependent on the VM
implementation. If memory serves me, the VM in the vanilla kernel has
changes relatively often, where as vendors like RedHat keep their favorite.

Jason

rodrigogoncalves wrote:

> 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