From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: gcmh-mode Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 13:16:18 +0300 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="18774"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0 (3d08634) (2020-11-07) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andrea Corallo Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 17 12:40:21 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kezLR-0004ob-Is for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2020 12:40:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58568 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kezLQ-0003KS-KM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2020 06:40:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48516) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kezJk-0002As-DG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2020 06:38:36 -0500 Original-Received: from static.rcdrun.com ([95.85.24.50]:52513) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kezJi-0005X6-IG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2020 06:38:36 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:41.202.241.56]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.2,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by static.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000002C0007.000000005FB3B637.000005BD; Tue, 17 Nov 2020 11:38:31 +0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=95.85.24.50; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=static.rcdrun.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/11/17 04:47:25 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 3.11 and newer [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:259282 Archived-At: * Andrea Corallo [2020-11-17 11:35]: > Jean Louis writes: > > > * Andrea Corallo via "Emacs development discussions. [2020-11-17 00:28]: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I'd like to propose GCMH as GNU Elpa package. > >> > >> It enforces a sneaky Garbage Collection strategy to minimize GC > >> interference with user activity. > > > > I have tried it, enabled it, and watched on side. Then I came back and > > could find Emacs swapping or doing something with memory that I could > > not interrupt it or see what is going on. > > > > I had to killall emacs > > You may want to tweak `gcmh-high-cons-threshold' and `gcmh-idle-delay' > depending on your needs and machine you are on. > > That said if you need some help please provide more details filing a bug > report, otherwise is difficult to understand what's the cause. This > kind of generic messages are of little help into progressing with > issues. I would be very specific if I would know what specifics you need and how I can obtain it. All specific details I have is that I just loaded the library and turned on the mode without customizations.