From: Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>
To: "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
Cc: Carsten Mattner <carstenmattner@googlemail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Pretest note
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:24:28 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87obrz7l9f.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
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")
Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> writes:
>> (dotimes (n 50000)
>> (with-temp-buffer
>> (insert-file-contents "/path/to/emacs/etc/NEWS")))
>>
>> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-14 6:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-12 3:13 Pretest note Chong Yidong
2012-03-12 6:17 ` Jambunathan K
2012-03-12 11:08 ` Leo
2012-03-12 11:12 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-03-12 11:30 ` Leo
2012-03-12 13:39 ` Carsten Mattner
2012-03-13 6:25 ` Chong Yidong
2012-03-13 9:02 ` Carsten Mattner
2012-03-13 9:16 ` Carsten Mattner
2012-03-13 9:17 ` Carsten Mattner
2012-03-13 9:33 ` Tassilo Horn
2012-03-13 10:31 ` Carsten Mattner
2012-03-13 10:46 ` Carsten Mattner
2012-03-13 10:28 ` Jan Djärv
2012-03-13 10:39 ` Jan Djärv
2012-03-14 6:24 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2012-03-14 10:25 ` Carsten Mattner
2012-03-12 16:30 ` John Yates
2012-03-13 6:31 ` Chong Yidong
2012-03-12 22:34 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2012-03-13 13:00 ` Stefan Monnier
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-03-14 20:22 Angelo Graziosi
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