Re: Re: [metabase-dev] numRows in the oracle driver

From: Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 18:27:14 +0000
Subject: Re: Re: [metabase-dev] numRows in the oracle driver
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On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 01:19 PM, Lukas Smith wrote:
Since allocated memory is not really freed until the process ends, the memory footprint remains high for large result sets.
Ok I understand.
This memory (that which is alloc'd, free'd, but which the OS does not actively reclaim from the process) just gets paged out under memory pressure. This really isn't a concern. It get's reused as the process requires additional memory, it's simply not reclaimed by the OS. This is quite different than alloc'ing and then not free'ing it. George

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