From: Naveed Chehrazi <nchehrazi@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 43876@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#43876: Emacs uses excessive memory
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2020 15:25:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADkdQW_yP-U4ah67XRJA6SVz62W63m31h6zkP701FszrhoeLXg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <831ri77unj.fsf@gnu.org>
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Hi Eli,
I use emacs to write academic papers. This means that the follow
packages/modes are generally active:
- auctex
- reftex
- flyspell
- company
- pdf-view (using pdftools)
- Ebib
- Org
I often have 3 to 4 emacs window/frame open for many days. Emacs uses
normal amount of memory initially but after three or four days, the amount
of memory it has used has grown enormously. I have not changed the settings
of the garbage collector. Its current value is:
gc-cons-threshold is a variable defined in ‘C source code’.
Its value is 800000
I can run tests on my machine if you think that would be helpful.
Best regards,
Naveed
On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 1:58 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> merge 43876 43389
> thanks
>
> > From: Naveed Chehrazi <nchehrazi@gmail.com>
> > Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2020 19:53:02 -0500
> >
> > I had two instances where my emacs was using an excessive amount of
> memory (once about 45GiB, and
> > once using 94GiB). I have the memory-profiler report below. It appears
> that helm package is the cause,
>
> Please disregard the profiler results: it doesn't measure memory
> consumption, not at all.
>
> What would be beneficial for this and similar bug reports (see
> bug#43389) is to describe what you are doing when memory footprint of
> the Emacs process grows significantly. That might give some ideas
> about where to look for the culprit(s).
>
> Do you have some customizations that change gc-cons-threshold?
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-09 20:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-09 0:53 bug#43876: Emacs uses excessive memory Naveed Chehrazi
2020-10-09 6:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-09 20:25 ` Naveed Chehrazi [this message]
2020-10-10 6:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-11 2:20 ` Naveed Chehrazi
2021-01-25 2:20 ` Naveed Chehrazi
2021-01-25 3:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-25 3:53 ` Naveed Chehrazi
2021-01-25 4:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-25 5:24 ` Naveed Chehrazi
2021-01-25 3:51 ` bug#43876: 27.1; " Naveed Chehrazi
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