[Spread-users] Do you think there is memory leak?

[Rob Brown-Bayliss]

> Actually, this makes me curious. Does anyone know of an OS where
> heap memory is not released when a process exits?

It's not really releavant any more, but the Amiga's used to do funny
things to memory, basically if you used X amount of mem, then freed it
it was marked as a free block, if another app wanted X or less than X of
memoey it would grab said block,  If the X used was less then the
existing block became two different blocks when freed.  if it wanted
more the system used some other memory. 

Eventually you got to the situation were all avalaiable memory was
subdivided into tiny blocks that were unusable and had to reboot.

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