From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Jan_Dj=C3=A4rv?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Pretest note Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:28:41 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87lin6zf2x.fsf@gnu.org> <87boo16mrn.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1331634552 11053 80.91.229.3 (13 Mar 2012 10:29:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:29:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Carsten Mattner , "emacs-devel@gnu.org" To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 13 11:29:11 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 1S7Oya-00084y-Mk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:29:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54549 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S7Oya-0001wl-2b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 06:29:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:50304) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S7OyQ-0001wP-A7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 06:29:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S7OyH-0001Ga-8a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 06:28:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout.melmac.se ([62.20.26.67]:41297) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S7OyH-0001F5-0o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 06:28:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mail01.melmac.se (mail01.melmac.se [62.20.26.80]) by mailout.melmac.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9ECD9E61 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:28:43 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: (qmail 22401 invoked by uid 89); 13 Mar 2012 10:26:04 -0000 Original-Received: from h-46-59-42-18.na.cust.bahnhof.se (HELO coolsville.localdomain) (boel.djarv@bdtv.se@46.59.42.18) by mail01.melmac.se with ESMTPA; 13 Mar 2012 10:26:04 -0000 Original-Received: from [172.20.199.248] (janiphone [172.20.199.248]) by coolsville.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3E3BF7FA06C; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:28:43 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <87boo16mrn.fsf@gnu.org> X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (9B176) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 62.20.26.67 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:149005 Archived-At: Hello. 13 mar 2012 kl. 07:25 skrev Chong Yidong : > Carsten Mattner writes: >=20 >> Don't we want to do something about the leak(s) or at least verify >> down that they're correct "caching" or "reuse" behavior? >=20 > AFAICT, this is Jan's report that memory is not returned to the system > on Mac OS? =20 I can not be sure that it is never returned. It is not returned as much as i= t is on GNU/Linux.=20 > , if someone can help pin this down, that will be > appreciated. Yamamoto Mitsuharu gave one suggestion here: >=20 > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2012-01/msg00358.html. >=20 > Also, I'd like to know whether it really involves memory not being > returned at all, independently of gnutls and networking. For example, > here is some Elisp code that visits a file and kills the buffer a few > thousand times: >=20 > (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. Jan D.=20=