From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Pretest note Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:24:28 +0800 Message-ID: <87obrz7l9f.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87lin6zf2x.fsf@gnu.org> <87boo16mrn.fsf@gnu.org> <603C2C2A-083E-42CA-9D66-7DE8E8D1D3E1@swipnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1331706447 18342 80.91.229.3 (14 Mar 2012 06:27:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 06:27:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Carsten Mattner , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jan =?utf-8?Q?Dj=C3=A4rv?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 14 07:27:26 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S7hgA-0003vK-AD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 07:27:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55595 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S7hg9-0000Uk-9J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 02:27:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:55816) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S7hfj-00008m-7g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 02:27:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S7hfg-00027c-O6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 02:26:54 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:46322) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S7hfg-00027W-JS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 02:26:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [155.69.16.255] (port=28499 helo=ulysses) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S7hfe-00065q-Ba; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 02:26:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: <603C2C2A-083E-42CA-9D66-7DE8E8D1D3E1@swipnet.se> ("Jan \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Dj\=C3\=A4rv\=22's\?\= message of "Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:39:44 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.94 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 208.118.235.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:149031 Archived-At: Jan Dj=C3=A4rv writes: >> (dotimes (n 50000) >> (with-temp-buffer >> (insert-file-contents "/path/to/emacs/etc/NEWS"))) >>=20 >> If Emacs on Mac OS really never returns memory, this should chew up >> all the memory on your system. Does it? Check also if Emacs 23 is >> affected. > > I don't see much difference. > After executing, Emacs 23 uses 33.9 Mbyte real memory, 41.2 virtual. > Emacs trunk: 35.4/42.8 > > Garbage-collect after the run has no effect. Then memory can be returned, at least in some circumstances. Otherwise 50,000 copies of NEWS would take up 3GB of memory.