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Re: Emacs eats up my memory while viewing images


From: Danny YUE
Subject: Re: Emacs eats up my memory while viewing images
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2017 23:54:09 +0800
User-agent: mu4e 0.9.18; emacs 25.2.1

On 2017-06-08 14:54, Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com> wrote:
> Danny YUE <sheepduke@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I suspect there is something wrong with it, because when I press
>> "N"
>> for `image-next-file`, the old image file is removed from buffer
>> list,
>> thus the memory consumed by it *should* be released...
>
> Not necessarily; it depends on the OS. Some only mark memory as
> again available after the application exits. What OS are you
> running
> Emacs on?
>
>
> Alexis.

I am running Emacs on a Gentoo system.
Well, customized kernel, hard to say.

I forgot to mention that more than 1 GB (out of 8GB) memory was released
after I killed Emacs. Is that really *normal*?

But thanks, you inspired me ;-)

Danny



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