From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs bzr memory footprint Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:12:17 -0400 Message-ID: <87pqi03m72.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <83fwix2osa.fsf@gnu.org> <834nzd2eil.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1318522358 24204 80.91.229.12 (13 Oct 2011 16:12:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:12:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Carsten Mattner , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 13 18:12:34 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RENtZ-0005bv-6X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:12:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37522 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RENtY-0001zN-J0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:12:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:48710) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RENtQ-0001z4-N0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:12:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RENtP-0007bv-Qo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:12:24 -0400 Original-Received: from vm-emlprdomr-03.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.144]:41673) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RENtL-0007b6-Oh; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:12:19 -0400 Original-Received: from furball ([128.36.14.81]) (authenticated bits=0) by vm-emlprdomr-03.its.yale.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p9DGCH6h019865 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:12:18 -0400 In-Reply-To: <834nzd2eil.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:43:30 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.90 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.71 on 130.132.50.144 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 130.132.50.144 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:145141 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > In addition, there are internal buffers and data structures, such as > load-history, which grow for as long as your session is up, and are > not shrunk when you kill buffers. > > I don't know if several tens of MBs can be explained by this, but some > of them surely can. Don't forget fonts; visiting HELLO will bump your memory usage up by about 10MB. And loading the unicode name database (e.g. for C-x 8 RET completion) will bump it up by another 10MB.