From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: theophilusx@gmail.com, georgie@southernohio.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Does Emacs return memory to the system on Mac OS X or *BSD?
Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 08:29:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvpofflgsh.fsf-monnier+Inbox@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83k25o9l11.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 11 May 2017 05:36:58 +0300")
>> IOW the only difference is in the fact that it requires more swap space,
>> which can occasionally be noticeable, e.g. when you don't have swap
>> space at all.
> No, it also means that part of the VM address space is in use and
> cannot be used by other apps.
What do you mean by "VM address space"? Each process has its own
address space, so Emacs's use of address space shouldn't impact
other processes. But maybe you just mean the same as what I meant by
"swap" (i.e. the total amount of (virtual) memory that the system can
handle).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-11 12:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-09 23:03 Does Emacs return memory to the system on Mac OS X or *BSD? George Plymale II
2017-05-10 3:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-05-10 6:31 ` George Plymale II
2017-05-10 12:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-05-10 16:09 ` George Plymale II
2017-05-13 17:07 ` Andreas Politz
2017-05-10 12:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-05-10 16:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-10 19:16 ` George Plymale II
2017-05-10 22:33 ` Tim Cross
2017-05-10 23:34 ` George Plymale II
2017-05-11 0:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-05-11 1:39 ` George Plymale II
2017-05-11 2:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-05-11 0:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-05-11 2:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-11 12:29 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2017-05-11 15:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-11 15:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-05-11 16:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-11 18:52 ` Davis Herring
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