From: David Pleydell <d_pleydell@yahoo.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: why is emacs using all my memory
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 02:22:53 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <786141.68707.qm@web57608.mail.re1.yahoo.com> (raw)
I have writen a program in C (called from a script in R) that I run inside emacs. The program is still in development phase so I have it spit out lots and lots and lots of text for monitorring progress. The program runs for several days.
After half a day emacs is now using over 3Gb of RAM (almost half of my RAM). So I killed all the old text and purged the kill ring using M-:(setq kill-ring nil). But this hasn't freed the 3Gb. I have no idea what emacs is doing with this 3Gb, there are no other processes running. How can I diagnose what process within emacs is using this memory? Perhaps there is there some kind of "M-x top"?
thankx
David
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2010-06-24 15:47 ` why is emacs using all my memory Pascal J. Bourguignon
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