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[QUOTE="Chris Smith, post: 616736"]
Yes, it's a bit more complex than I'd originally said, but it does make
a difference.  There are actually two ways.

First, IIRC the garbage collector actually does pay attention to memory
pressure in the system when deciding whether to release memory to the
operating system during collection, Don't hold me to that; it's a
distant memory from investigating the workings back when the memory
release was first added several years ago.  I don't recall the source.

Second, the operating system has its own ways to deal with a ballooning
process -- by swapping it out -- and the garbage collector *definitely*
pays attention to RAM locality when running, so that it will tend to run
more often and compact heap space more aggressively if the process is
seeing an unusually high number of page faults.

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