From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "T.V. Raman" <tv.raman.tv@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Memory Usage On Emacs 24 Lucid Linux:
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:55:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvy5r4vuen.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADkJX2hf8o3jJzGUdWYYe8i+FW7r15hRV1s4YiLnqdhfbUoU1g@mail.gmail.com> (T. V. Raman's message of "Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:53:22 -0700")
> After running emacs -q -- and then M-x shell, I see all of the
> memory on the machine getting shewed up -- at least as reported
> by free.
Aha!
> Shell: emacs -q M-x shell M-x memory-usage
> Garbage collection stats:
> ((54977 . 10205) (15045 . 0) (90 . 121) 417724 1000327014 (67 . 191)
> (117 . 161) (25648 . 1043))
> => 879632+163280 bytes in cons cells
> 722160+0 bytes in symbols
> 3600+4840 bytes in markers
> 1072+3056 bytes in floats
> 6552+9016 bytes in intervals
> 820736+33376 bytes in string headers
> 417724 bytes of string chars
> 417724 bytes of vector slots
> Total bytes in lisp objects: 1003392058 (live 1003178490, dead 213568)
OK, that's very helpful, it narrows it down a good deal.
Now, all we have to figure out is how on earth does "M-x shell" create
so many (or such large) vectors!
Could it be you have $HISTSIZE set to a really large number?
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-14 1:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-12 20:13 Memory Usage On Emacs 24 Lucid Linux: T. V. Raman
2012-03-12 20:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-03-12 21:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-13 23:44 ` T.V. Raman
2012-03-13 23:53 ` T.V. Raman
2012-03-14 1:55 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-03-14 2:24 ` T.V. Raman
2012-03-14 17:13 ` T.V. Raman
2012-03-14 17:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-03-15 8:19 ` Chong Yidong
2012-03-12 21:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-13 3:51 ` Memory Usage On Emacs 24 Lucid what?: Richard Stallman
2012-03-13 7:19 ` Simon Leinen
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