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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: arne_bab@web.de, spacibba@aol.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Indentation and gc
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:09:50 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zg8gbsch.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83v8j6t2ib.fsf@gnu.org>

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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Session statistics is much harder to gather.
>> It is more realistic to ask people about benchmarking their init.el if
>> we want to be serious about bumping gc-cons-threshold.
>
> We should ask them to report statistics after running a session for
> enough time.  What exactly qualifies as "enough time" depends on the
> usage patterns: there are people, like me, who run a single session
> for weeks on end, and there are others who start a new session every
> day or even more frequently.  What is interesting is the statistics
> near the end of the session.
>
> Statistics from loading init.el is much less interesting, mainly
> because reducing GC impact during such short intervals is easy and
> well-understood.  We could collect such statistics as well, but it is
> not the main goal from where I stand.

I think we can ask interested users to install a package like
https://git.sr.ht/~yantar92/emacs-gc-stats/tree/main/item/emacs-gc-stats.el

Then, they can share the results after running Emacs with the package
for some time.

See the attached statistics data example.

WDYT?

>> That's why I am seeing reducing the frequency of GCs as more important
>> than trying to reduce GC time, which cannot be even halved easily.
>
> A single very long GC will be annoying even if it happens rarely.  So
> I don't agree the frequency of GCs is so much more important than the
> time it takes to perform a GC.

I do not really mean that it is not important.
But there is little Emacs can do about the memory consumption. It
mainly depends on the third-party packages being used.

In contrast, GC frequency is something that can be tweaked easily on
Emacs side by altering GC thresholds.

>> >> - memory-limit 6,518,516, stable
>> >
>> > ??? That's 6 GiB.  Didn't you say your memory footprint stabilizes at
>> > 1 GiB?
>> 
>> memory-limit is a natively compiled function defined in subr.el.
>
> If the Emacs memory usage in system monitor is 1.7 Gib, how come
> memory-limit says it's 6.5 GiB?

6.5Gib is virtual memory. 1.7Gib is actually used memory - the value
people usually mean when considering memory footprint.


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((("Initial stats" "Mon Mar 13 15:50:59 2023"
   (gc-cons-threshold . 800000)
   (gc-cons-percentage . 0.1)
   (memory-limit . 198924)
   (emacs-version . "30.0.50")
   (memory-info 15996152 7760168 20971516 16568504))
  ("Mon Mar 13 15:51:08 2023"
   (gc-cons-threshold . 250000000)
   (gc-cons-percentage . 0.0001)
   gcmh-mode
   (gc-elapsed . 0.130179026)
   (gcs-done . 14)
   (this-command)
   (memory-limit . 748360))
  ("Mon Mar 13 15:51:08 2023"
   (gc-cons-threshold . 250000000)
   (gc-cons-percentage . 0.0001)
   gcmh-mode
   (gc-elapsed . 0.130179026)
   (gcs-done . 14)
   (this-command)
   (memory-limit . 748360))
  ("Init.el stats" "Mon Mar 13 15:51:10 2023"
   (gc-cons-threshold . 250000000)
   (gc-cons-percentage . 0.0001)
   (gc-elapsed . 0.277816909)
   (gcs-done . 15)
   (memory-limit . 757600)
   (emacs-uptime . "14 seconds"))
  ("Mon Mar 13 15:51:33 2023"
   (gc-cons-threshold . 250000000)
   (gc-cons-percentage . 0.0001)
   gcmh-mode
   (gc-elapsed . 0.277816909)
   (gcs-done . 15)
   (this-command . org-agenda)
   (memory-limit . 963332))
  ("Mon Mar 13 15:51:37 2023"
   (gc-cons-threshold . 250000000)
   (gc-cons-percentage . 0.0001)
   gcmh-mode
   (gc-elapsed . 0.425213479)
   (gcs-done . 16)
   (this-command . org-agenda)
   (memory-limit . 1209092))
  ("Mon Mar 13 15:54:07 2023"
   (gc-cons-threshold . 250000000)
   (gc-cons-percentage . 0.0001)
   gcmh-mode
   (gc-elapsed . 0.643833105)
   (gcs-done . 17)
   (this-command . org-save-all-org-buffers)
   (memory-limit . 1572008))
  ("Mon Mar 13 16:00:09 2023"
   (gc-cons-threshold . 250000000)
   (gc-cons-percentage . 0.0001)
   gcmh-mode
   (gc-elapsed . 2.788064769)
   (gcs-done . 18)
   (this-command . self-insert-command)
   (memory-limit . 1483484))
  ("Session end stats" "Mon Mar 13 16:02:38 2023"
   (gc-cons-threshold . 250000000)
   (gc-cons-percentage . 0.0001)
   (gc-elapsed . 5.784780114)
   (gcs-done . 19)
   (memory-limit . 1615352)
   (emacs-uptime . "11 minutes, 42 seconds"))))

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Ihor Radchenko // yantar92,
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  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-13 15:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 99+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20230310110747.4hytasakomvdyf7i.ref@Ergus>
2023-03-10 11:07 ` Indentation and gc Ergus
2023-03-10 14:36   ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-03-10 14:54     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-10 19:23       ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-03-11  6:38         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-11  6:55           ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-03-11  7:56             ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-11 12:34               ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-03-11 13:08                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-11 13:31                   ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-03-11 13:44                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-11 13:53                       ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-03-11 14:09                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-12 14:20                           ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-03-12 14:40                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-12 15:04                               ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-03-12 15:26                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-13 15:09                                   ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
2023-03-13 15:37                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-13 15:45                                       ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-03-13 16:58                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-13 18:04                                           ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-03-14 12:19                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-15 10:28                                               ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-03-15 12:54                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-15 12:59                                                   ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-03-15 14:20                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-16 10:27                                                       ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-04-06  9:13                                                         ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-04-08  8:04                                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-08  8:15                                                             ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-04-08 10:03                                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-14 17:07                                                                 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-04-14 17:56                                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-13 18:14                                         ` Gregor Zattler
2023-03-14 12:30                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-14 15:19                                             ` Gregor Zattler
2023-03-11 16:19                     ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-03-12 13:27                       ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-03-12 14:10                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-12 14:50                           ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-03-12 15:13                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-12 17:15                               ` Gregor Zattler
2023-03-12 20:07                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-13 15:01                               ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-03-13 15:33                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-13 15:39                                   ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-03-13 15:39                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-13 16:04                                       ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-03-13 16:52                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-14 12:47                                           ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-03-14 13:09                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-15 10:29                                               ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-03-13 15:41                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-14 13:01                                   ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-03-11 10:54       ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-03-11 11:17         ` Ergus
2023-03-11 11:23           ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-03-11 12:31           ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-11 12:39             ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-03-11 12:40               ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-11 12:54                 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-03-11 13:01                   ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-03-11 13:14                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-11 13:38                     ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-03-11 13:46                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-11 13:54                         ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-03-11 14:11                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-11 14:18                             ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-03-11 14:20                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-11 14:31                                 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-03-11 15:32                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-11 15:52                                     ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-03-11 16:24                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-11 17:10                                     ` Gregor Zattler
2023-03-11 17:25                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-11 18:35                                         ` Gregor Zattler
2023-03-11 18:49                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-13 12:45                                     ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-03-13 12:51                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-14 14:16                                         ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-06-14 15:36                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-14 15:58                                             ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-06-14 16:07                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-16 10:00                                                 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-06-16 10:33                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-16 11:03                                                     ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-06-16 11:34                                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-21 10:37                                                         ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-06-21 11:11                                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-11 13:00                 ` Po Lu
2023-03-11 12:37         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-11 13:10           ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-03-11 13:38             ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-10 14:52   ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-10 21:30     ` Ergus
2023-03-11  6:52       ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-21  7:11   ` Jean Louis
2023-03-21  7:27     ` Emanuel Berg

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