I noticed that after running emacs for a few days, the memory
consumption was getting quite enormous. After killing all buffers, it
hardly reduced. I don't know if this is an actual emacs bug or the fault
of some third party library, but I don't really know how to debug the
problem either, which is why I rather report it.

The instance is still running with no actual problems, except for the
fact that it uses 1.2G of resident memory, which is a bit beyond the
expected Eight Megabytes :)

Please let me know if I can provide further debugging information from
the running instance, or if I should just move on and simply restart
emacs every now and then.

(emacs-uptime) "5 days, 2 hours, 7 minutes, 24 seconds"

Output of top:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
top - 00:16:29 up 18 days,  4:30,  6 users,  load average: 0.21, 0.19, 0.29
Tasks: 189 total,   4 running, 180 sleeping,   0 stopped,   5 zombie
Cpu(s):  7.2%us,  4.5%sy,  1.7%ni, 84.8%id,  1.7%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.2%si,
0.0%st
Mem:   4052048k total,  2910060k used,  1141988k free,    32392k buffers
Swap:  4881404k total,   660148k used,  4221256k free,   252920k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
27353 philipp   20   0 1504m 1.2g  10m S    8 30.2 207:14.31 emacs
22679 root      20   0  753m 318m 3736 S    4  8.0 864:28.80 X
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---



Output of pmap -x $(pgrep -U$UID -x emacs):