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- From: douglis@MITL.COM (Fred Douglis)
- Subject: Re: Epoch Memory Leaks?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.185123.5985@MITL.COM>
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- References: <SMILEY.92Nov12104022@akasha.eng.hou.compaq.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 18:51:23 GMT
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- smiley@akasha.eng.hou.compaq.com (Colin Smiley) writes:
-
- >I seem to have run into a memory leak somewhere. Or maybe it is just
- >obscene memory usage. I don't expect to see a fix for this anytime
- >soon, but I figured that I would let you people know what I am seeing.
-
- I would imagine it's just what you would call obscene usage. The rest
- of us wouldn't -- or at least I wouldn't. What epoch (and gnu emacs) does
- is to keep all the files you ever edit in virtual memory, plus the
- things in the kill ring, plus who knows what else. So it's bound to
- grow over time unless you delete lots of buffers as you go along and
- it's able to reuse some of that memory.
-
- This isn't a problem on most modern desktop systems, since swap space is
- usually plentiful. It is probably a bigger problem for things like
- laptops with limited memory and limited disk space.
- --
- Fred Douglis
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