Re: Memory again

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 18:35:49 +0400
> From: Dmitry Antipov <address@hidden>
> 
> 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.

I don't think buffers are subject to this disadvantage, because they
are relocated when needed.  Maybe I'm missing something, but please
elaborate to show what that is.