Andy Piper <andyp(a)parallax.co.uk&gt; writes: > If I start gnus using movemail to read my mail my xemacs image size grows > from about 8Mb to 20-30Mb (this is with a fixed cygwin from Chris Faylor). I guess this memory is mostly from the huge buffers gnus uses for its folders > If I quit gnus the memory usage does not go down at all. > Is this what people would expect? gc collect does not give memory back to the system. On some systems (most unix systems that support mmap for instance) XEmacs does give the memmory from deleted buffers back. Maybe on your system it doesn't. What allocator does XEmacs use on cygwin?