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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: dalanicolai <dalanicolai@gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Question about (excessive?) ram usage when many overlays (with large vscroll)
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 13:13:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv7d7a1me4.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACJP=3nbKX43o8d2DLGiORDY2ncmxybOmy5FOC_vVxALnx-=Zg@mail.gmail.com> (dalanicolai@gmail.com's message of "Wed, 27 Apr 2022 16:13:58 +0200")

> Thanks again Eli for looking into this quickly.  Over here, the memory
> does not even get released after killing the buffer, while the
> overlays are 'bound' in a buffer local list variable.

IIUC current glibc basically never returns malloc'd memory to the OS.


        Stefan




  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-04-27 17:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-26 12:21 Question about (excessive?) ram usage when many overlays (with large vscroll) dalanicolai
2022-04-26 12:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-26 13:24   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-27 14:13     ` dalanicolai
2022-04-27 15:44       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-27 17:13       ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2022-04-27 17:18         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-26 12:49 ` Po Lu
2022-04-27 14:01   ` dalanicolai
2022-04-28 11:56   ` dalanicolai
2022-04-28 12:06     ` Po Lu
2022-04-28 16:28       ` dalanicolai
2022-04-28 16:48         ` dalanicolai

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