Re: (heap 1024 82721 1933216)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 05:51:26 -0800
> From: Daniel Colascione <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
> 
> On 01/18/2014 05:50 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 05:39:30 -0800
> >> From: Daniel Colascione <address@hidden>
> >>
> >> On Emacs trunk, I recently got into a situation where Emacs had a vsize
> >> of over 6GB. After killing all buffers, garbage-collect reported (heap
> >> 1024 82721 1933216) as the most interesting part of its on its return
> >> value. dlmalloc's free memory retention seems a bit severe here. Are we
> >> just badly fragmenting the heap?
> >
> > Buffers are not allocated off the heap, as you well know.
> 
> No, but their buffer locals might be.

I find it hard to believe that buffer locals could devour gigabytes of
memory, no matter what fragmentation did we cause.