From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: George Plymale II <georgie@southernohio.net>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Does Emacs return memory to the system on Mac OS X or *BSD?
Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 08:49:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv4lwsop98.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m0vap9ql3m.fsf@lehi.dev.orbitalimpact.com> (George Plymale, II's message of "Wed, 10 May 2017 02:31:09 -0400")
> Sorry, I did not know that Emacs would return pages rarely. I figured it
> would be somewhat common, if you have multiple, dead GBs of heap laying
> around (as in the linked reddit post). Such a thing seems like a token
> that you should give some of that back to the OS.
If it's a single 1GB chunk, it'll most likely be returned (tho there are
unlucky build-configurations where that might happen, and I believe such
situation has unwittingly been in common use for Emacs-25.1 under
GNU/Linux, IIUC).
In the reddit thread, the 1.5GB is completely unexplained, so it's hard
to say anything intelligent about it.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-10 12:49 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 [this message]
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
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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