From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert Thorpe" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs22 takes too much memory Date: 18 Dec 2006 05:31:10 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1166448670.075121.293410@t46g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1166473527 18581 80.91.229.2 (18 Dec 2006 20:25:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 20:25:27 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 18 21:25:24 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GwImL-0006j2-QS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:43:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GwImI-00051e-8Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 08:43:38 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!t46g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.94.228.210 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1166448676 28661 127.0.0.1 (18 Dec 2006 13:31:16 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:31:16 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.0 EMF3ASPROXY03 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: t46g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=213.94.228.210; posting-account=hWoAPxMAAAAnBKSBz1ZivwUPPjEuve7bvVCHZQ8rhrluPfwcBJd92w Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:144086 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:39710 Archived-At: Ronald wrote: > 130MB > > what's in use is: > a. two tiny .c files > b. cedet (semantic on) > c. eshell > d. other buffers opened automatically (scratch,Message,Completions) > > Why? I can think of three possible reasons:- * Top is reporting it wrong. Top is notoriously inaccurate for programs that use a lot of libraries. In some circumstances it just does program_space + library_space. Check how much memory a simple GTK+ app appears to be using, if it says ~100MB then that's the problem * GTK+ another fairly notorious bit of software. AFAIK It can consume a lot of memory if used in ways the authors were not expecting. Maybe try the Xaw version? * CEDET. Maybe there is a strange interaction between new Emacs and CEDET? CEDET also uses a lot of memory, but it shouldn't use this much.