releasing RAM to Windows

From: [at]} <ftkachov{>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 21:08:35 +0400 (MSK DST)

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Hi Experts!

Here is an exotic problem:

The program requires practically all of RAM
for a limited period of time.
Even after the garbage is collected
the RAM Blackbox took from the OS
is retained by Blackbox.
True, it's gonna stay in the windows swap file on disk
but nevertheless:
is there a trick to force Blackbox to release unused RAM
to the OS?

(Suppose we are running a 24/7 operation with limited resources.)

Thanks in advance,
Fyodor Tkachov
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