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Comment by franga2000

8 months ago

From what I've heard, this is also how most of the "memory cleaner" apps work on most platforms - use memory in a loop so the system starts dropping various caches and housekeeping tasks and swapping backgroud processes, then exit so the memory is reclaimed.

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