From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: dalanicolai@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Question about (excessive?) ram usage when many overlays (with large vscroll)
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 20:18:40 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83v8uubg27.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv7d7a1me4.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Wed, 27 Apr 2022 13:13:04 -0400)
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 13:13:04 -0400
>
> > Thanks again Eli for looking into this quickly. Over here, the memory
> > does not even get released after killing the buffer, while the
> > overlays are 'bound' in a buffer local list variable.
>
> IIUC current glibc basically never returns malloc'd memory to the OS.
That is NOT true, AFAIU. It can do that in some cases, but it doesn't
_always_ do that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-27 17:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-26 12:21 Question about (excessive?) ram usage when many overlays (with large vscroll) dalanicolai
2022-04-26 12:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-26 13:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-27 14:13 ` dalanicolai
2022-04-27 15:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-27 17:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-04-27 17:18 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-04-26 12:49 ` Po Lu
2022-04-27 14:01 ` dalanicolai
2022-04-28 11:56 ` dalanicolai
2022-04-28 12:06 ` Po Lu
2022-04-28 16:28 ` dalanicolai
2022-04-28 16:48 ` dalanicolai
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