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Originally posted by nwegner:
Yes, they can, but Apple, in its "wisdom", said not to because they thought it might hurt the user experience if someone opened an app then ran out of memory while using it

It's one of these things. If it's really a problem then you just get The Reaper from (url="http://"http://www.akua.com")www.akua.com(/url). It's called 'Tempory memory', and should be used as that. Web browsers often use it. The problems occur when the system heap cannot expand any more, so the allocation API fails.

As for the memory fragmentation - yep, true. The largest avalible block is just that, the largest block avalible. If you have a small memory resident application that you open with a large application open, chances are that it will open in the middle of your memory. This causes fragmentation, and can be cured by quitting the offending application.

As for the largest avalible block thing - the system heap seems to grow readily but not shrink afterwards.

At least MacOS memory is truely protected, unlike this PC I am using. I dont think that crashing IE should crash the OS. IE crashes too much.

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