Memory Usage On Emacs 24 Lucid Linux:

["T. V. Raman" <tv.raman.tv@gmail.com>]

Just did a git pull -a to see if nmy memory woes on the 16-core
workstation (HP Z600) were a thing of the past, alas No.

Here are some numbers that I hope are useful:

Running Emacs 23.2 on that machine, with my default .emacs
loaded, RSS  is about 235MB VSS about 430MB. This is an Emacs
session that has been up for about a week.

Emacs 24 built from today's git snapshot:

Starting Emacs with the same .emacs loaded:

0. All memory on the machine goes away to Emacs (started with 9GB
of 12GB free) -- as reported by free.

1. After running a garbage collect in that emacs (before GC, it  
was basically  too slow to use)
Running proced showed an RSS of 7gb and a VSS of approx 8GB.

I ran M-x memory-usage and here are the numbers.

Garbage collection stats:
((833982 . 321192) (57906 . 5) (116 . 491) 4504763 1000738985 (1539 . 520) (13100 . 7508) (171211 . 33823))

 =>	13343712+5139072 bytes in cons cells
	2779488+240 bytes in symbols
	4640+19640 bytes in markers
	24624+8320 bytes in floats
	733600+420448 bytes in intervals
	5478752+1082336 bytes in string headers
	4504763 bytes of string chars
	4504763 bytes of vector slots

Total bytes in lisp objects: 1034278620 (live 1027608564, dead 6670056)

Buffer ralloc memory usage:
18 buffers
113342 bytes total (4948 in gaps)
      Size	Gap	Name

     45482	0	*Compile-Log*
     43734	1852	*Proced*
      7714	771	.diary
      6742	111	*Messages*
      2039	204	 *g scratch*
       596	59	*Calendar*
       594	59	*shell*
       568	1570	*Buffer Details*
       362	36	*Warnings*
       322	32	 *completion-save-buffer*
       191	20	*scratch*
        81	20	*Shell Command Output*
        42	20	 *code-conversion-work*
        12	20	 *Echo Area 0*
         9	20	 *dtk-scratch-buffer* 
         0	20	 *Minibuf-1*
         0	20	 *Minibuf-0*
         0	20	 *Echo Area 1*


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