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From: George Plymale II <georgie@southernohio.net>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Does Emacs return memory to the system on Mac OS X or *BSD?
Date: Tue, 09 May 2017 19:03:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m0a86ltyy0.fsf@lehi.dev.orbitalimpact.com> (raw)

Hi,

So, this question is spurred by a discussion found in this reddit
thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/5rswpn/freeing_dead_heap/ddae477/
I'm curious as to whether Emacs returns memory to the operating system
when running on Mac OS X or *BSD systems. As is made clear in the
discussion, such things are system-dependent and there is no unified
resource for which systems support this behavior and which ones do
not. If no one here knows about this off the top of their head, which
specific source file(s) can I browse to learn about this? Thanks.



             reply	other threads:[~2017-05-09 23:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-09 23:03 George Plymale II [this message]
2017-05-10  3:07 ` Does Emacs return memory to the system on Mac OS X or *BSD? 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
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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