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Memory Leaks

Question Text​

What happens to the leaked memory when the process finishes execution?

Question Answers​

  • It will be freed by the OS garbage collector

  • It remains unusable until the first restart

  • It is freed alongside all memory used by process
  • It will remain reachable until another process explicitly frees it

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When a process ends, all its memory zones are freed by the OS to be reused. Leaking memory becomes a major problem in case of programs that run indefinitely, because the leaked memory will stack, causing a memory outage.