From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Wiegley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs bzr memory footprint Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:02:00 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83fwix2osa.fsf@gnu.org> <0B3EE7A4-D0D6-4D1E-ADC4-0BEE68F179B2@mit.edu> <87fwivwp37.fsf@turtle.gmx.de> <87sjmvpmd2.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87aa93wmc4.fsf@turtle.gmx.de> <87sjmnrdjw.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1319151921 8615 80.91.229.12 (20 Oct 2011 23:05:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 23:05:21 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 21 01:05:17 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RH1fp-0007SS-3r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2011 01:05:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45884 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RH1fo-0001KO-7p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:05:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:58522) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RH1fl-0001KC-Js for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:05:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RH1fk-0000Hr-II for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:05:13 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:56986) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RH1fk-0000Hm-DD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:05:12 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RH1fd-0007Ny-US for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2011 01:05:05 +0200 Original-Received: from c-98-215-105-167.hsd1.il.comcast.net ([98.215.105.167]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 21 Oct 2011 01:05:05 +0200 Original-Received: from jwiegley by c-98-215-105-167.hsd1.il.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 21 Oct 2011 01:05:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-105-167.hsd1.il.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/23.3 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:PilNaEWpC+4x+5Df5koWbNxQGmA= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:145374 Archived-At: >>>>> Nix writes: > Gnus is clearly driving Emacs much harder than mere cc-mode ever does. I'm > particularly stunned by the number of string-chars in use. It must have some > huge variables defined, probably holding overview data or something... I'm > not sure how large some of those things are: if they're large structures > this might explain most or all of the memory consumption. Do you using the Gnus Registry? Which backends do you use? How many messages are in mailboxes that you open? John