Re: How do I verify that gc is doing anything

Friday, 28 August 1998

        Andy Piper <andyp(a)parallax.co.uk&gt; writes:

...
 Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr&gt; writes:

 > 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).  If I quit gnus the memory usage does not go down at
 > > all.  Is this what people would expect?
 > 
 > Unfortunately, yes.

 Why? 
Because Lisp storage is not reclaimed by the system.

...
 It sounds like this is not the behaviour under NTemacs and UNIX.

I don't think my XEmacs shrinks back to 8M after I quit Gnus.  In
fact, I am fairly certain I've never seen that happen.

-- 
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr&gt; | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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