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From: Manuel Giraud via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How much memory to debug Emacs nowadays?
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2023 21:01:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87jzpxg0a6.fsf@ledu-giraud.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8334wlai06.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 01 Dec 2023 20:35:05 +0200")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

[...]

> Something on your side, I'd say.  Just starting "emacs -Q" under GDB
> takes only between 100MB and 130MB (depending on whether Emacs is
> built without or with native-compilation) of memory for GDB on my
> system.  (This is GDB 13.1, but I doubt that the GDB version could
> matter that much.)

Thanks, that is reassuring.

> Does GDB allocate memory right at the beginning, or when you do
> something specific in Emacs?  Also, do you invoke "emacs -Q" from GDB
> or do you run Emacs with all your customizations?

No I did a "set args -Q".  It starts to allocate lot of memory when I
call "run".
-- 
Manuel Giraud



      reply	other threads:[~2023-12-01 20:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-12-01 18:24 How much memory to debug Emacs nowadays? Manuel Giraud via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2023-12-01 18:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-01 20:01   ` Manuel Giraud via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]

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