From: Miles Bader <snogglethorpe@gmail.com>
Cc: juri@jurta.org, ttn@gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GC (was: lists.texi)
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 09:51:03 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fc339e4a0506241751212cb6d3@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200506242352.j5ONqLv11140@raven.dms.auburn.edu>
On 6/25/05, Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu> wrote:
> Well, obviously if you have very little resident memory and set
> gc-cons-threshold to a huge value, then conceivably your operating
> system could wind up spending most of its time swapping memory. Then
> not only Emacs, but everything else as well, will become slow. I do
> not know whether that is what Eli is referring too. Certainly, if you
> have a reasonable amount of resident memory, increasing
> gc-cons-threshold to 4M should not create any such problems and it
> does speed up things.
It's certainly the case that most machines these days have vastly more
memory than even a few years ago. For developers I think a practical
minimum is 512MB, for less demanding users, maybe 256MB (if you buy a
low-end budget computer, this is typically the amount of RAM it comes
with) -- but a 4MB gc threshold looks like nothing compared to either
one, and the current default (400KB) looks downright silly.
I also think OS memory management is much better these days, which
likewise suggests increasing the default limit.
-Miles
--
Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-25 0:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-18 23:19 lists.texi Luc Teirlinck
2005-06-19 0:01 ` lists.texi Luc Teirlinck
2005-06-19 0:15 ` lists.texi Luc Teirlinck
2005-06-19 0:37 ` lists.texi Luc Teirlinck
2005-06-19 6:37 ` lists.texi David Kastrup
2005-06-19 15:55 ` lists.texi Richard Stallman
2005-06-19 17:47 ` lists.texi Luc Teirlinck
2005-06-20 17:52 ` lists.texi Richard Stallman
2005-06-20 23:12 ` lists.texi Luc Teirlinck
2005-06-21 5:13 ` lists.texi David Kastrup
2005-06-21 15:13 ` lists.texi Richard M. Stallman
2005-06-21 16:35 ` lists.texi Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-06-21 19:00 ` lists.texi Luc Teirlinck
2005-06-21 21:56 ` lists.texi Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-06-21 19:45 ` lists.texi Luc Teirlinck
2005-06-21 20:58 ` lists.texi Luc Teirlinck
2005-06-21 22:09 ` lists.texi Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-06-22 16:28 ` lists.texi Juri Linkov
2005-06-22 19:27 ` lists.texi Eli Zaretskii
2005-06-22 18:44 ` lists.texi Luc Teirlinck
2005-06-22 20:25 ` lists.texi Luc Teirlinck
2005-06-23 16:53 ` lists.texi Richard M. Stallman
2005-06-24 19:02 ` GC (was: lists.texi) Juri Linkov
2005-06-24 19:02 ` Juri Linkov
2005-06-24 21:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-06-24 21:54 ` Juri Linkov
2005-06-24 23:52 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-06-25 0:51 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2005-06-25 9:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-06-25 11:58 ` GC Adrian Aichner
2005-06-25 12:53 ` GC Miles Bader
2005-06-25 21:53 ` GC Adrian Aichner
2005-06-26 0:02 ` GC Miles Bader
2005-06-26 8:20 ` GC Adrian Aichner
2005-06-26 18:51 ` GC Eli Zaretskii
2005-06-26 23:43 ` GC Juri Linkov
2005-06-27 5:38 ` GC Richard M. Stallman
2005-06-26 22:42 ` GC Richard M. Stallman
2005-06-25 12:15 ` GC (was: lists.texi) Miles Bader
2005-06-25 13:10 ` GC Gaëtan LEURENT
2005-06-25 14:48 ` GC Eli Zaretskii
2005-06-25 14:45 ` GC (was: lists.texi) Eli Zaretskii
2005-06-25 16:40 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-06-28 4:55 ` GC Stefan Monnier
2005-06-28 21:29 ` GC Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-11 17:00 ` GC Stefan Monnier
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