Re: Emacs bzr memory footprint

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:08:28 +0200
> From: Carsten Mattner <address@hidden>
> Cc: Andreas Schwab <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> From: Andreas Schwab <address@hidden>
> >> Cc: Carsten Mattner <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> >> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:33:15 +0200
> >>
> >> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> >>
> >> > I think mmap is always used if available and workable.
> >>
> >> No.
> >>
> >> use_mmap_for_buffers=no
> >> case "$opsys" in
> >>   cygwin|freebsd|irix6-5) use_mmap_for_buffers=yes ;;
> >> esac
> >
> > Thanks, I confused the OP's question with whether malloc uses mmap.
> 
> As I remember that configure result from Linux and glibc uses
> mmap, from what I remember, being disabled makes sense.

Configuring on GNU/Linux shows that mmap is not used directly for
buffers, which is consistent with the above.