[KLUG Members] free command

[Wesley Leonard]

The gimp (or parts of its code) stays in memory until that memory is needed
again.  Try running the gimp, closing it, then running it again.  It should load
about twice as fast the second time.

That's part of the memory management of the operating system, I believe.

Dirk H Bartley wrote:
> 
> I execute free before running a memory hog of a program.  Then after exiting the
> program, I have less free memory then before starting it. Does this mean that
> there is a problem with the program freeing memory, or is it that the kernel
> assuming you may use the exact same files again and not showing the space as
> free?
> 
> The program in question is the gimp.
> 
> Dirk
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