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From: Danny YUE <sheepduke@gmail.com>
To: Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com>
Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
	Danny YUE <sheepduke@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Emacs eats up my memory while viewing images
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2017 23:54:09 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mv9ih3vi.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wp8mcyxr.fsf@gmail.com>


On 2017-06-08 14:54, Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com> wrote:
> Danny YUE <sheepduke@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I suspect there is something wrong with it, because when I press
>> "N"
>> for `image-next-file`, the old image file is removed from buffer
>> list,
>> thus the memory consumed by it *should* be released...
>
> Not necessarily; it depends on the OS. Some only mark memory as
> again available after the application exits. What OS are you
> running
> Emacs on?
>
>
> Alexis.

I am running Emacs on a Gentoo system.
Well, customized kernel, hard to say.

I forgot to mention that more than 1 GB (out of 8GB) memory was released
after I killed Emacs. Is that really *normal*?

But thanks, you inspired me ;-)

Danny



  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-08 15:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-08 11:58 Emacs eats up my memory while viewing images Danny YUE
2017-06-08 14:54 ` Alexis
2017-06-08 15:54   ` Danny YUE [this message]
2017-06-08 15:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-08 16:06   ` Danny YUE
2017-06-08 16:14     ` Eli Zaretskii

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