Re: Memory again

[Dmitry Antipov]

On 11/26/2011 05:26 PM, Carsten Mattner wrote:

> After having used 4 erlang-mode buffers and having killed all buffers
> for more than an hour and having run M-x garbage-collect there still
> seems to be unreclaimable space.

This is an internal heap fragmentation, the most common disadvantage
of simple mark and sweep GC.

> It's been sitting there with 0 buffers in *scratch* at around 54megs
> for a couple hours.

Try to restore your 4 erlang-mode buffers and other stuff which has been
previously used to reach 54M. If the heap will not grow substantially
beyond 54M, this means that fragmented space was mostly re-used.
If you ends up with 2x or more heap, there is a serious memory leak
somewhere.

Dmitry