Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Generally that kind of thing isn't so bad though. All the garbage that 
> gets paged out never gets paged back in again. 

Sometimes when you kill a big process, it actually does have to read 
everything back in, to run finalizers or whatever, and to generally 
deallocate memory.  It's not unusual to hit ctrl-C on a CLI-driven program 
and have it take a minute or more to exit even if you're not catching signals.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
    Eiffel - The language that lets you specify exactly
    that the code does what you think it does, even if
    it doesn't do what you wanted.

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