Re: Update on the Emacs release schedule?

[Jan Djärv]

Hello.

7 jan 2012 kl. 19:32 skrev Carsten Mattner <address@hidden>:

> On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 7:11 PM, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> For the record, I use a --without-gnutls Emacs while also not
>>> using Gnus, and am part of the users seeing the "leaks".
>> 
>> AFAIK you're not seeing leaks, but only excessive memory use (and
>> failure to return memory to the system early enough for your taste),
> 
> Maybe :). How do we define "early enough"? Hours or days?

Never. AFAIK Osx never gives back memory allocated to the system.

That is why  changing malloc implementation might be the only solution. 

    Jan D.