From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Does Emacs return memory to the system on Mac OS X or *BSD?
Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 22:20:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvwp9okuxx.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m0d1bgqihv.fsf@lehi.dev.orbitalimpact.com
> Ok, I appreciate that there are different reasons as to why memory usage
> goes up aside from just not giving stuff back to the OS.
Not returning memory to the OS should basically never cause the memory
use to grow. It can only cause it to fail to shrink.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-11 2:20 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
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 [this message]
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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