[PyQt] Memory Release question

[Darryl Wallace]

Thanks for the clarification.

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Ville M. Vainio <vivainio at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Darryl Wallace
> <darryl.wallace at prosensus.ca> wrote:
>
> > If I take the MDI example and start that program, it's using 11,060K of
> ram.
> >  Creating a new document in the MDI (by clicking the "new" button on the
> > toolbar brings the ram usage up to 11,376K.  Upon closing the document,
> ram
> > usage went down to 11,372K.  After a minute or so it went down to
> 11,340K.
> >  Why doesn't it go back to closer to 11,060?
> > I would guess that when the QTextEdit object was destroyed, that the
> memory
> > it used would be returned.
> > Can anyone provide some info?
>
> The application heap is not typically returned to OS directly when
> objects are freed. Rather, the freed space will be used by other
> objects allocated by the application.
>
> --
> Ville M. Vainio
> http://tinyurl.com/vainio
>



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