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Re: Question about (excessive?) ram usage when many overlays (with large
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Question about (excessive?) ram usage when many overlays (with large vscroll) |
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Wed, 27 Apr 2022 20:18:40 +0300 |
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 13:13:04 -0400
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> > 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.
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> IIUC current glibc basically never returns malloc'd memory to the OS.
That is NOT true, AFAIU. It can do that in some cases, but it doesn't
_always_ do that.
Re: Question about (excessive?) ram usage when many overlays (with large vscroll), Po Lu, 2022/04/26