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| From: | Stefan Monnier |
| Subject: | Re: Does Emacs return memory to the system on Mac OS X or *BSD? |
| Date: | Wed, 10 May 2017 22:20:31 -0400 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> Ok, I appreciate that there are different reasons as to why memory usage
> goes up aside from just not giving stuff back to the OS.
Not returning memory to the OS should basically never cause the memory
use to grow. It can only cause it to fail to shrink.
Stefan
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