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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 |
Subject: |
Re: Does Emacs return memory to the system on Mac OS X or *BSD? |
Date: |
Wed, 10 May 2017 12:09:36 -0400 |
> I didn't say that it's what happens. I just pointed out that if this
> happens, then the answer to your question would be a resounding "yes"
> even though I'm pretty sure you wouldn't be satisfied with the
> actual behavior.
Ok, thanks for the clarification.
> If it's a single 1GB chunk, it'll most likely be returned (tho there are
> unlucky build-configurations where that might happen, and I believe such
> situation has unwittingly been in common use for Emacs-25.1 under
> GNU/Linux, IIUC).
Thanks for the information; that's good to know.
> In the reddit thread, the 1.5GB is completely unexplained, so it's hard
> to say anything intelligent about it.
Actually, the author stated in a another post,
(https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/5rswpn/freeing_dead_heap/ddfil8v/)
in reply to the parent of the linked thread, that he is running on Linux
and had been doing some heavy duty web scraping via EWW and had some
PDFs open.
- 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?, 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
- 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?, Stefan Monnier, 2017/05/10