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ending a process frees up more ram than the process was taking?

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yawnmoth

Flightless Bird
I had a process that had a Mem Usage of 685,520 K and PF usage of 2.06
GB. I end the process and my PF usage drops to 1.17 GB. That's a
~890,000 K difference - not ~685,000 K.

My question is... why the difference? Why does ending this process
free more RAM than the process was taking up? Is this what's known as
a memory leak?
 
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Shenan Stanley

Flightless Bird
yawnmoth wrote:
> I had a process that had a Mem Usage of 685,520 K and PF usage of
> 2.06 GB. I end the process and my PF usage drops to 1.17 GB.
> That's a ~890,000 K difference - not ~685,000 K.
>
> My question is... why the difference? Why does ending this process
> free more RAM than the process was taking up? Is this what's known
> as a memory leak?


Why do you think that said process had no child processes that ended when it
did?

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yawnmoth

Flightless Bird
On Feb 15, 5:45 pm, "Shenan Stanley" <newshel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> yawnmoth wrote:
> > I had a process that had a Mem Usage of 685,520 K and PF usage of
> > 2.06 GB.  I end the process and my PF usage drops to 1.17 GB.
> > That's a ~890,000 K difference - not ~685,000 K.

>
> > My question is...  why the difference?  Why does ending this process
> > free more RAM than the process was taking up?  Is this what's known
> > as a memory leak?

>
> Why do you think that said process had no child processes that ended whenit
> did?


The Processes count in the bottom left went from 91 to 90. The
process in question, incidentally, is firefox.exe. I'm not aware of
any child processes that that might spawn.
 
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