What's "Reduce Working Set"?

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It frees memory, would like to know how, what exactly is being reduced? Thanks :slightly_smiling_face:

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Where is that option? I can’t recall seeing it anywhere in the settings or even the online help pages

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	10 hours ago, Rhubarb said:



	

		Where is that option? I can't recall seeing it anywhere in the settings or even the online help pages
	



I think it appeared after enabling expert mode, also there's "*Optimize system heap*", looks like something useful🤔

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It simply frees up any excess memory by compacting.

'Expert' mode is really only for debugging
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	15 hours ago, Rhubarb said:



	

		It simply frees up any excess memory by compacting.
	

	

		'Expert' mode is really only for debugging
	



What do you mean by compacting?
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It’s similar to defragmenting a hard drive - ‘gaps’ in memory are cleared by moving it down