[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anand Palaniswamy) writes:
> Another bad side effect of this limitation is that the famous "return
> memory to OS" bug can not be implemented on Linux (ie, there is no
> heap "shrinking").
Are you sure about that? I use GNU emacs a lot and just tried an
experiment on a machine running RedHat because I have observed address
space shrinking on other UNIX's. Sure enough, the "ps" command under
RedHat reports that the emacs process size increases when it reads a
big file, but decreases back to what it was when I kill the buffer. I
don't mean the resident size, either, but the overall process address
space size.
Joe Buehler
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