GNU bug report logs - #34320
Emacs 26.1: RAM does not get released after quitting Emacs

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: René Kuligowski <renekuligowski <at> o2mail.de>

Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2019 21:11:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: notabug, wontfix

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: René Kuligowski <renekuligowski <at> o2mail.de>
Cc: 34320 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#34320: Fwd: Re: bug#34320: Emacs 26.1: RAM does not get released after quitting Emacs
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2019 19:20:48 +0200

> Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:45:29 -0100
> From: René Kuligowski <renekuligowski <at> o2mail.de>
> 
>    I also checked thoroughly in the VFSes (/sys, /proc etc.) and ran a 
> mem tracer.  The memory blocks are not freed, but stay allocated, like 
> from a forgotten free() call or a severely buggy malloc() call (like the 
> common issues with gcc 3.3 and 4.5).

Can you see which software module "owns" the memory that is not freed?
Could it be, for instance, that Emacs loaded some system shared
libraries, and the OS didn't unload them?
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