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bug#38345: 27.0.50; Permanent increase in memory consumption after openi
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#38345: 27.0.50; Permanent increase in memory consumption after opening images (or pdfs) |
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Sun, 02 Aug 2020 20:14:29 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> However, looking at the C code, I don't understand then why the
>> memory consumption is increasing. I can only see that too many images in
>> c->images array can cause extra memory consumption, which cannot cause
>> the observed memory leak.
>
> I guess that's because the freed memory is not at the end of the heap,
> and this cannot be returned to the OS.
This was half a year ago, and skimming this bug report, it seems like
this was the tentative conclusion -- there's no memory leak, just the
allocator not returning the memory back to the OS.
If that's the case, then this bug report can be closed?
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- bug#38345: 27.0.50; Permanent increase in memory consumption after opening images (or pdfs),
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