From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Does Emacs return memory to the system on Mac OS X or *BSD? Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 22:20:31 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1494469319 16798 195.159.176.226 (11 May 2017 02:21:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 02:21:59 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 11 04:21:55 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1d8djm-0004Gz-PR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 May 2017 04:21:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45551 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d8djs-0002oN-B9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 May 2017 22:22:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40438) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d8die-0002o6-Dm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 May 2017 22:20:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d8dib-0004xb-Au for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 May 2017 22:20:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=60804 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d8dib-0004wF-4m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 May 2017 22:20:41 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1d8diS-0002TS-EJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 May 2017 04:20:32 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 8 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:oX7p6kOkTxFLWtxRnLK4C+N3i7Q= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:214786 Archived-At: > 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