Can somebody explain this memory usage

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Reply to Saaa,

> dmd 1.042 Phobos OpenGl + SDL (Derelict)
> 
> mem usage (winxp task manager) = 60MB,  peak = 120MB gc.fullCollect is
> run just before mainloop, no change in mem usage
> 
> after 10 minutes or so mem usage has stabilized at 70MB
> I have localized this to toStringz usage and think this is why tango's
> toStringz has a temp argument.
> When I minimize and normalize the window, mem usage goes to 4MB.
> 
> I think I don't understand memory (de)allocations.. might be a bad
> thing :)
> 

For one thing, most runtimes will never return memory the the OS so task 
manager will never show a drop in memory. What you should be looking at is 
either the resident set size in task manager or some of the GC stats in the 
process.