Re: [macos] memory use up to 1gb

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

On September 5, 2019 6:25:08 AM GMT+03:00, Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org> wrote:
> I'm starting emacs with 30 buffers (of which 28 are files), with no
> running processes and the memory footprint is about 150 mb.
> 
> After a few days of working with the buffers (mostly text editing,
> org-mode use, packages updates, etc.) I end up with more than 1gb of
> memory footprint.
> 
> Is that an anomaly ? Does that correspond to undo information and
> other things like that ? If that's an anomaly, how do I debug that (it
> seems to take some time to reach that value) or how do I avoid that
> phenomenon ?
> 
> I'm using the regularly updated "vanilla" master branche (simple "make
> install" on macos 10.14.6).
> 
> Jean-Christophe Helary
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> http://mac4translators.blogspot.com @brandelune

You don't say what Emacs version is that.  If that's Emacs 27, make sure you are using the latest master branch, where problems related to GC were fixed yesterday.