bug#38345: 27.0.50; Permanent increase in memory consumption after opening images (or pdfs)

[Ihor Radchenko]

> If that's the case, then this bug report can be closed?

I think so.

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> 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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Ihor Radchenko,
PhD,
Center for Advancing Materials Performance from the Nanoscale (CAMP-nano)
State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi'an Jiaotong 
University, Xi'an, China
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