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> Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 06:12:49 -0800
> From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> there's still 2GB of accounted memory sitting there unused.

You are using your system's malloc, right?  If so, how is this
something Emacs can fix?  When your system's malloc relinquishes
memory to the OS is that malloc's internal business.  As is heap
fragmentation, for that matter.