bug#34320: Emacs 26.1: RAM does not get released after quitting Emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 20:19:41 -0100
> From: René Kuligowski <renekuligowski@o2mail.de>
> 
> Sorry, had little time to spare for testing and research the problems, 
> hence it took a while ;-)

We all get hit by that from time to time ;-)

>    I guess my system is just too old for Emacs 26 and the upcoming 27.
>    But it would still be nice if one of you could further look into the 
> memory eating problem; maybe there is a solution (like, eg, ifdef-ing 
> other memory handling for older systems).

Whatever this is, it isn't Emacs that's causing this.  There simply is
no way a program could still hold onto memory after it exits.
Whatever doesn't let that memory be released it isn't Emacs, at least
not directly.