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

[yawnmoth]

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?

 

[Shenan Stanley]

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]

On Feb 15, 5:45 pm, "Shenan Stanley" 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.