[Info-vax] Memory Management (was Re: Running Alpha VMS under the ES40 emulator)
JF Mezei
jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca
Mon Oct 14 17:27:17 EDT 2013
On 13-10-14 11:37, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> JF undoubtedly knows this, but closing a tab in various modern browsers
> frees the associated physical memory and also frees the underlying
> virtual memory.
Not the case for Firefox. Firefox may have a seperate process for Flash,
but that process lingers on once it has been started. And closing a tab
rearely sees actual RAM user lower on OS-X. But definitely not 1 process
per tab. (it may be done as threaded architecture though).
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