From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Observing lags or never ending processes
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2022 22:01:06 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83edw7xk7h.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Yyi4bcsGrKgt4QTH@protected.localdomain> (message from Jean Louis on Mon, 19 Sep 2022 21:43:57 +0300)
> Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2022 21:43:57 +0300
> From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>
> > But if GC is responsible for those "lags", then it's normal Emacs
> > operation, and you should look into changing your use patterns and
> > packages you load so as to make the memory footprint of your Emacs
> > sessions smaller, preferably so that it is never swapped out of
> > physical memory. If you customized the GC threshold to a much higher
> > value, lower it. Or maybe you have some other memory-intensive
> > programs on your system that create situations where some of Emacs's
> > memory is swapped out. These are all reasons for GC being much slower
> > than it's supposed to be.
>
> How exactly can I change use patterns?
How should I know? I don't even know what are your present use
patterns, which packages you routinely load, which ones you use
frequently, how many buffers are typically present in your session,
etc. etc.
> Today I was waiting 1 hour for garbage collection, two times, before I
> killed Emacs.
Did you change the GC thresholds? (I asked that above, but you didn't
answer.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-19 19:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-11 6:59 Observing lags or never ending processes Jean Louis
2022-09-11 7:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-11 12:36 ` Jean Louis
2022-09-11 13:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-11 13:31 ` Jean Louis
2022-09-11 20:21 ` Jean Louis
2022-09-12 2:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-12 5:53 ` Jean Louis
2022-09-12 11:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-12 12:35 ` Jean Louis
2022-09-12 7:50 ` Jean Louis
2022-09-12 11:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-16 19:06 ` Jean Louis
2022-09-17 6:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-19 18:43 ` Jean Louis
2022-09-19 19:01 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-09-20 4:42 ` Jean Louis
2022-09-20 7:54 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-09-22 20:30 ` Jean Louis
2022-09-23 5:30 ` Jean Louis
2022-09-23 6:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-23 8:17 ` Jean Louis
2022-09-23 10:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-23 14:16 ` Jean Louis
2022-09-24 15:30 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-09-23 11:30 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-09-20 11:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-20 18:17 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-09-19 23:11 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-09-11 15:57 ` Jean Louis
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