Although the memory manager can recover unreachable memory, it cannot free memory that is still reachable and therefore potentially still useful.
To terminate the thread correctly, must call or end with "return 0", freeing memory allocated by the run time library to support the thread.
The buddy method of freeing memory is fast, with the maximal number of compactions required equal to log(highest order).
Loadhigh and other methods of freeing conventional memory have largely become obsolete.
It can also write the image to an ordinary file, thereby avoiding potential race issues in freeing memory when preparing to suspend.
DCE/RPC has strictly defined rules regarding marshalling and who is responsible for freeing memory.
But-" She tossed her hands lightly, freeing memory.
Faulty heap memory management: Memory leaks and freeing non-heap or un-allocated memory are the most frequent errors caused by faulty heap memory management.
When an application frees memory, gaps can fall in the memory segment that the application uses.
DOS 5.0 can free more conventional memory by finding space between 640 kilobytes and one megabyte, after fussy trial and error.