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Is killing a process still considered bad for memory management?
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Mar 15, 20264118 viewsConfidence Score0%
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So I am having a little discussion with my boss about memory management. I've been told that killing a process does not allow it to deallocate memory. Is that still the case, or was that years ago? We're talking both Windows and OS X here.
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No problem in my experience, kill away. As an example, if you have 4 GB of RAM, 3 GB of which is in use by a game and you kill the game process, you can restart the game without issues and it'll have 3 GB of RAM on the process again.
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