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Basic UNIX Fact:
Authored by: porkchop_d_clown on Nov 08, '02 11:22:21AM

When an application asks for more virtual memory than it currently has, the operating system enlarges that applications memory space. When the application frees that memory, the operating system DOES NOT shrink the application again - it leaves the virtual memory space (not actual RAM!) assigned to the application on the assumption that it is likely to want that memory again later.

This is pretty fundamental to how UNIX works. I would only worry if you went back later, browsed those photos a second or third time and the Finder got even larger.



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Basic UNIX Fact:
Authored by: taikahn on Nov 08, '02 01:09:58PM

Anyone wanna try this?

I think its not a bug --- unix apps like apache exhibit extremely similiar issues --- but then again, I always have to reboot/restart for apache to "get back to normal" ---



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