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 08:06:24 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1494418042 29734 195.159.176.226 (10 May 2017 12:07:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 12:07:22 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: George Plymale II Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 10 14:07:19 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 1d8QOj-0007d1-CM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 May 2017 14:07:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42434 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d8QOp-0004el-1V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 May 2017 08:07:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46787) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d8QOX-0004WF-0Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 May 2017 08:07:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d8QOT-0006z3-1u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 May 2017 08:07:04 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:32144) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d8QOS-0006yo-Rs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 May 2017 08:07:00 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: A0AuBwAEAhNZ/3Z8oWxdGgEBAQECAQEBAQgBAQEBg1WKY4UaZZBjKwGXVYYeBAIChHtEFAECAQEBAQEBAWsohRYBBAFWIxALNBIUGA0kiiwItHCKdQEBCAImiyQ0ilEBBJ4KlQcBiQWGeZJ/gUQ2IYEKLyAILoU8HIF/JIlPAQEB X-IPAS-Result: A0AuBwAEAhNZ/3Z8oWxdGgEBAQECAQEBAQgBAQEBg1WKY4UaZZBjKwGXVYYeBAIChHtEFAECAQEBAQEBAWsohRYBBAFWIxALNBIUGA0kiiwItHCKdQEBCAImiyQ0ilEBBJ4KlQcBiQWGeZJ/gUQ2IYEKLyAILoU8HIF/JIlPAQEB X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.38,319,1491278400"; d="scan'208";a="312485284" Original-Received: from 108-161-124-118.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([108.161.124.118]) by smtp.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 10 May 2017 08:06:26 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id D339A662C5; Wed, 10 May 2017 08:06:24 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (George Plymale, II's message of "Wed, 10 May 2017 02:31:09 -0400") 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: 2.1.21 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:214757 Archived-At: >> would you really care if Emacs once in >> a blue moon returns 4KB out of a 2GB heap? > Sorry, I did not know that Emacs would return pages rarely. I didn't say that it's what happens. I just pointed out that if this happens, then the answer to your question would be a resounding "yes" even though I'm pretty sure you wouldn't be satisfied with the actual behavior. Stefan