Thanks for the clarification. The system I am testing on is swapless, so
maybe would explain why RSS is not increasing.
> On a swapless system, freeing pages in a given range happens instantly,
> regardless of memory pressure.
>
My suggestion for wording would to be more specific about the de
I'm trying out a build of my code under go1.12beta1 and resident memory
usage is not too dramatically different than under go1.11. The wording on
this release note made me think the runtime was going to continually gobble
up memory and not release any until the system had nearly run out, but tha
Hello,
This caught my eye from the go1.12beta1 release notes:
On Linux, the Go runtime now releases memory back to the operating system
> only when the OS is under memory pressure. This is more efficient, but
> means a process's RSS (resident set size) won't decrease unless the OS is
> running
