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Re: Does Emacs return memory to the system on Mac OS X or *BSD?
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Does Emacs return memory to the system on Mac OS X or *BSD? |
Date: |
Thu, 11 May 2017 11:39:27 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> >> IOW the only difference is in the fact that it requires more swap space,
>> >> which can occasionally be noticeable, e.g. when you don't have swap
>> >> space at all.
>> > No, it also means that part of the VM address space is in use and
>> > cannot be used by other apps.
>> What do you mean by "VM address space"?
> That pages mapped into some process's address space diminish the total
> amount of VM which the system can allocate, even if those pages are
> swapped out of physical memory.
I think we're in violent agreement here.
Stefan
- Re: Does Emacs return memory to the system on Mac OS X or *BSD?, (continued)
- 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
- 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?, Stefan Monnier, 2017/05/11
- Re: Does Emacs return memory to the system on Mac OS X or *BSD?, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/05/11
- Re: Does Emacs return memory to the system on Mac OS X or *BSD?,
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- Re: Does Emacs return memory to the system on Mac OS X or *BSD?, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/05/11
- Re: Does Emacs return memory to the system on Mac OS X or *BSD?, Davis Herring, 2017/05/11