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From: Andrea Corallo via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
To: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: gcmh-mode
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 08:35:34 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xjfd00ce5yh.fsf@sdf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <X7NYQjcHXf7lCiLV@protected.rcdrun.com> (Jean Louis's message of "Tue, 17 Nov 2020 07:57:38 +0300")

Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:

> * Andrea Corallo via "Emacs development discussions. <emacs-devel@gnu.org> [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.

  Andrea



  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-17  8:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-16 21:27 [ELPA] New package: gcmh-mode Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2020-11-17  4:57 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-17  8:35   ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions. [this message]
2020-11-17 10:16     ` Jean Louis
2020-11-17 13:38       ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2020-11-17 21:01         ` Jean Louis

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