From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: (heap 1024 82721 1933216) Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 09:37:56 -0500 Message-ID: References: <52DA8412.2080009@dancol.org> <52DB472B.5060805@dancol.org> <52DB5375.5030608@dancol.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1390142290 10259 80.91.229.3 (19 Jan 2014 14:38:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 14:38:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs developers To: Daniel Colascione Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 19 15:38:16 2014 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 1W4tVu-0006MJ-T3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Jan 2014 15:38:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46470 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4tVu-0005w3-C4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Jan 2014 09:38:14 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52183) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4tVk-0005vi-NQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jan 2014 09:38:11 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4tVd-0007Tp-EA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jan 2014 09:38:04 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:43517) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4tVd-0007TP-AV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jan 2014 09:37:57 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av8EABK/CFFFpaEg/2dsb2JhbABEuzWDWRdzgh4BAQQBViMFCwsOJhIUGA0kiB4GwS2RCgOIYZcHhRKBXoMV X-IPAS-Result: Av8EABK/CFFFpaEg/2dsb2JhbABEuzWDWRdzgh4BAQQBViMFCwsOJhIUGA0kiB4GwS2RCgOIYZcHhRKBXoMV X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="45310855" Original-Received: from 69-165-161-32.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.165.161.32]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 19 Jan 2014 09:37:56 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 2AA9560299; Sun, 19 Jan 2014 09:37:56 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <52DB5375.5030608@dancol.org> (Daniel Colascione's message of "Sat, 18 Jan 2014 20:24:21 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 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:168737 Archived-At: > And FWIW, I've heard complaints about Emacs using too much memory and never > returning it to the system. What you quoted before was me pointing out that every time people complain about memory not being returned to the system it came together with a complaint that Emacs uses too much memory. Once the "too much memory" is solved, people don't care any more about the "not returned to the system". > That's a separate issue. Regardless of other concerns, the malloc heap > should never get this fragmented. Feel free to waste your time, of course. Stefan