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Garbage collection is usually associated with Java Apploications not C-compiled ones, here some nice articles with graphs and such that can better explain what you are asking about<br />
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<a href="http://java.sun.com/docs/hotspot/gc1.4.2/" rel="ugc">http://java.sun.com/docs/hotspot/gc1.4.2/</a><br />
<a href="http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ws60help/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.websphere.nd.doc/info/ae/ae/rprf_javamemory.html" rel="ugc nofollow">http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ws60help/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.websphere.nd.doc/info/ae/ae/rprf_javamemory.html</a><br />
<a href="http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~jphb/spos/notes/alloc.html" rel="ugc">http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~jphb/spos/notes/alloc.html</a>
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Garbage collection is usually associated with Java Apploications not C-compiled ones, here some nice articles with graphs and such that can better explain what you are asking about

http://java.sun.com/docs/hotspot/gc1.4.2/ [http://java.sun.com/docs/hotspot/gc1.4.2/]
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ws60help/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.websphere.nd.doc/info/ae/ae/rprf_javamemory.html [http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ws60help/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.websphere.nd.doc/info/ae/ae/rprf_javamemory.html]
http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~jphb/spos/notes/alloc.html [http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~jphb/spos/notes/alloc.html]

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Hi sorry for the vague title, I am running some tests on a Solaris platform and trying to figure out how memory is released from one of our drivers that sits resident in memory. When using the top command I can see how much memory the driver is using. But as I start to release components that this driver manages, I would presume to see the memory be released from the driver, as it appears on a Windows test machine that I am also testing on.<br />
One of my colleagues mentioned this thing about garbage collection that runs on Unix. I really dont know anything about this and want to try and figure out how Solaris manages drivers that reside in memory and how it does it release the memory.<br />
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Thanks in advance<br />
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Steve<br />

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Hi sorry for the vague title, I am running some tests on a Solaris platform and trying to figure out how memory is released from one of our drivers that sits resident in memory. When using the top command I can see how much memory the driver is using. But as I start to release components that this driver manages, I would presume to see the memory be released from the driver, as it appears on a Windows test machine that I am also testing on.
One of my colleagues mentioned this thing about garbage collection that runs on Unix. I really dont know anything about this and want to try and figure out how Solaris manages drivers that reside in memory and how it does it release the memory.

Thanks in advance

Steve


Garbage Collection

Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 at Bell Labs. Today, it is a modern OS with many commercial flavors and licensees, including FreeBSD, Hewlett-Packard’s UX, IBM AIX and Apple Mac OS-X. Apart from its command-line interface, most UNIX variations support the standardized X Window System for GUIs, with the exception of the Mac OS, which uses a proprietary system.