Re: Does Emacs return memory to the system on Mac OS X or *BSD?

[George Plymale II]

> 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.

Ok, thanks for the clarification.

> If it's a single 1GB chunk, it'll most likely be returned (tho there are
> unlucky build-configurations where that might happen, and I believe such
> situation has unwittingly been in common use for Emacs-25.1 under
> GNU/Linux, IIUC).

Thanks for the information; that's good to know.

> In the reddit thread, the 1.5GB is completely unexplained, so it's hard
> to say anything intelligent about it.

Actually, the author stated in a another post,
(https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/5rswpn/freeing_dead_heap/ddfil8v/)
in reply to the parent of the linked thread, that he is running on Linux
and had been doing some heavy duty web scraping via EWW and had some
PDFs open.