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On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, Robert Dewar wrote: > You still don't understand. Of course the operating system keeps around > executables which are not in current use. At least any decent one does, > and certainly all Unixes do this. If you then rerun the program before > the executable gets ejected, you do not need to reload it. Irrelevant to the point. Ask the OS how much memory is "free" and it will include that amount in the response, regardless of the fact that is has it earmarked. All programs like Norton do is make some very simple system calls to determine the amount of memory that can possibly be allocated. If the OS indicated that 61M of memory is in use, if you allocate 4M on a 64M machine, swapping will occur.