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Re: Does Emacs return memory to the system on Mac OS X or *BSD?
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George Plymale II |
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Re: Does Emacs return memory to the system on Mac OS X or *BSD? |
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Wed, 10 May 2017 02:31:09 -0400 |
> would you really care if Emacs once in
> a blue moon returns 4KB out of a 2GB heap?
Sorry, I did not know that Emacs would return pages rarely. I figured it
would be somewhat common, if you have multiple, dead GBs of heap laying
around (as in the linked reddit post). Such a thing seems like a token
that you should give some of that back to the OS. But, that is just my
opinion at face value of the situation and I admittedly lack experience
in implementing this sort of thing.
> The answer depends on a lot of details about the system, the
> compile-time options used, and the specific usage pattern.
Well, again, which source file(s) may I poke at to see this sort of
stuff in action myself?
Thanks.
- Does Emacs return memory to the system on Mac OS X or *BSD?, George Plymale II, 2017/05/09
- Re: Does Emacs return memory to the system on Mac OS X or *BSD?, Stefan Monnier, 2017/05/09
- Re: Does Emacs return memory to the system on Mac OS X or *BSD?,
George Plymale II <=
- Re: Does Emacs return memory to the system on Mac OS X or *BSD?, Stefan Monnier, 2017/05/10
- Re: Does Emacs return memory to the system on Mac OS X or *BSD?, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/05/10
- Re: Does Emacs return memory to the system on Mac OS X or *BSD?, George Plymale II, 2017/05/10
- Re: Does Emacs return memory to the system on Mac OS X or *BSD?, Tim Cross, 2017/05/10
- Re: Does Emacs return memory to the system on Mac OS X or *BSD?, George Plymale II, 2017/05/10
- Re: Does Emacs return memory to the system on Mac OS X or *BSD?, Stefan Monnier, 2017/05/10
- Re: Does Emacs return memory to the system on Mac OS X or *BSD?, George Plymale II, 2017/05/10