Go 1.3 Garbage collector not releasing server memory back to system
First, note that Go, itself, doesn’t always shrink its own memory space: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/Golang-Nuts/vfmd6zaRQVs The heap is freed, you can check this using runtime.ReadMemStats(), but the processes virtual address space does not shrink — ie, your program will not return memory to the operating system. On Unix based platforms we use a system call to tell … Read more