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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: memory leak
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When he wrote

	... after you completely quit using Emacs, the memory consumed by
	the Emacs process can easily grow by more than 35 percent, or 8M
	or more,

I think he really meant "when you stop typing and leave Emacs
completely idle".