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Re^3: Memory is not released back to operating systemby eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop) |
| on Mar 02, 2012 at 23:13 UTC ( [id://957565]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
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No, it defers to the implementation of the C runtime library malloc. Though I wouldn't recommend it unless you are desperate, it is possible to change the "release memory to the OS" behaviour by building Perl using a custom malloc. This has been discussed here many times before, see for example: Not able to release memory and How to return unused memory to OS?. From my testing across a number of OSes, I would expect only Linux and Windows to return "large" blocks of memory back to the OS. I would be interested to learn what operating system the OP is running on.
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