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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? |
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Wed, 10 May 2017 08:49:01 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> Sorry, I did not know that Emacs would return pages rarely. I figured it
> would be somewhat common, if you have multiple, dead GBs of heap laying
> around (as in the linked reddit post). Such a thing seems like a token
> that you should give some of that back to the OS.
If it's a single 1GB chunk, it'll most likely be returned (tho there are
unlucky build-configurations where that might happen, and I believe such
situation has unwittingly been in common use for Emacs-25.1 under
GNU/Linux, IIUC).
In the reddit thread, the 1.5GB is completely unexplained, so it's hard
to say anything intelligent about it.
Stefan
- Does Emacs return memory to the system on Mac OS X or *BSD?, George Plymale II, 2017/05/09
- Re: Does Emacs return memory to the system on Mac OS X or *BSD?, Stefan Monnier, 2017/05/09
- Re: Does Emacs return memory to the system on Mac OS X or *BSD?,
Stefan Monnier <=
- 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?, 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