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by MikeCapone 4698 days ago
Interesting. What does pressing that button actually do?
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If you hover that button with your mouse pointer you can read the following explanation:

Send three "heap-minimize" notifications in a row. Each notification triggers a global garbage collection followed by a cycle collection, and causes the process to reduce memory usage in other ways, e.g. by flushing various caches.