Re: reproducible memory problem and crashes on cygwin

[emacs user]

> From: Luc Teirlinck <address@hidden>
>
> emacs user wrote:
>
>    I'll take your word for that, I hardly know what GC is...
>
> I did not follow this thread and I do not know whether this has
> already been pointed out to you, but you can force a garbage
> collection using
>
> M-: (garbage-collect)
>
> If by any chance you then see `nil' in the echo area, we know what the
> problem is (pure space overflow).  Actually, you can do `M-x 
> garbage-collect'
> to force garbage collection, but then you do not see the return value in
> the echo area.

thanks for this...   so when I do this after killing the image buffers I get 
in the echo area:

((201785 . 16002) (29710 . 0) (1424 . 383) 3020224 374951 (873 . 247) (676 . 
67) (57159 . 8298))

but the memory use does not change.

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