From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Lots and lots of symbols interned by calc Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:17:23 -0400 Message-ID: <871ve7tkr0.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87sk6n4ayf.fsf@vh213601.truman.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1271960264 11820 80.91.229.12 (22 Apr 2010 18:17:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:17:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Leo , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: jay.p.belanger@gmail.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 22 20:17:43 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O50y6-0000MT-Av for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:17:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44068 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O50y5-00045y-7X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:17:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O50xv-00042Z-OG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:17:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49245 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O50xu-000414-06 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:17:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O50xq-0006MB-9o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:17:29 -0400 Original-Received: from pantheon-po15.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.71]:51870) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O50xp-0006Lm-1Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:17:26 -0400 Original-Received: from furry (dhcp128036014104.central.yale.edu [128.36.14.104]) (authenticated bits=0) by pantheon-po15.its.yale.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id o3MIHNGQ021720 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:17:23 -0400 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B47D9C055; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:17:23 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87sk6n4ayf.fsf@vh213601.truman.edu> (Jay Belanger's message of "Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:08:08 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.96 (gnu/linux) X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.2c (attachment(s) not renamed) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:124067 Archived-At: Jay Belanger writes: >> I have found the memory used by emacs goes up monotonously, for example, >> my current emacs session (up for 1 day 5 hours) takes up 101M with no >> visiting files. It is the third most memory hungry application right >> after the browser and a pdf viewer. >> >> I have found calc interned lots and lots of symbols (for example: >> abs\(1:\), Help\ on\ Stack, etc) into obarray. To see it: > > Those are menu entries. I'm a bit surprised that they are interned, but > I don't think Calc does anything unusual in creating its menus. Anyway, I don't see how such symbols can take up so much memory. Maybe Leo can experiment to see if a session that does not run calc has the same problem.