Darren New wrote:
> 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.

I haven't seen that problem with programs I've written myself (which 
obviously don't use finalisers), but I've seen other software do this...

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