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In article <9110152202.AA08031@underprize.think.com> rlk@think.com (Robert L Krawitz) writes:

      Date: Tue, 15 Oct 91 17:46:40 EDT
      From: Tim McNerney <TimMcN@Berlin.Think.COM>

      My officemate has noticed that gmacs thrashes more and more the longer
      gmacs has been running (eg. days, weeks).  Getting rid of buffers does not
      seem to help.  This has led me to wonder whether emacs ever compacts its
      heap.  If it did, I suppose that the GC doesn't have to page as frequently
      while GCing.  This behavior is especially noticeable on a SPARCstation 1
      with 4Mb of physical memory.  Regardless of the size of image (eg. 11Mb),
      no more than 1.6Mb appear to ever be resident.

   It never compacts its buffer space.  The lisp heap is compacted.

I posted a patch to 18.55/18.57 about a month ago that allows emacs to be
compiled with the malloc from prep.ai.mit.edu, that will try to give
memory back to the system, thus decreasing process size.  If there is
interest I'll post it again.

-randy