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SOS. No garbage-collection on exit!



Sebastian H Seidel wrote:

> PS: What happens to the other data? Is MzScheme slowly drowning my
> computer with unfreed data if only I happen to start and exit it often
> enough?

This is strange, and not MzScheme's fault.  When a program terminates,
the OS is responsible for collecting its memory -- and all modern OSes
do so.  If you really are seeing inaccurate memory use inflation,
perhaps you could explicate your situation a bit more.  Something else 
is clearly afoot.

Shriram