From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
To: Carsten Mattner <carstenmattner@googlemail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs bzr memory footprint
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 10:44:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wrbxza8g.fsf@turtle.gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACY+HvobLLXMnp_+HcoR_D2QWDP5bCuTxi3rvNRsdmmKEUkE1A@mail.gmail.com> (Carsten Mattner's message of "Sat, 22 Oct 2011 09:34:35 +0200")
On 2011-10-22 09:34 +0200, Carsten Mattner wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Stefan Monnier
> <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> > This creates two-level fragmentation: the whole heap is fragmented as seen
>> > by malloc(), and allocated space is fragmented too, as seen by Emacs. Since
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>> > solid workload will consume 100M of the heap, the most of this 90M will be re-used -
>>
>> Exactly: so this fragmentation is not a serious problem in the sense
>> that this free memory can be (re)used by Emacs.
>>
>> > but it will never freed.
>>
>> Right, so it's a problem in the sense that this memory will not be
>> available to other processes.
>>
>> While this is not perfect, I don't consider it to be a serious problem.
>> E.g. when people complain about Emacs using a lot of memory it's always
>> (until now and I think in Nix's case as well) a case of too much memory
>> being used because of something like a leak, and not just "Emacs doesn't
>> return its free memory to the OS".
>
> It is a problem for everybody like me who doesn't have
> gigs of free RAM. Sorry.
>
> I'll remember to --disable-gnutls and not use Gnus for my
> own safety, for the moment. That's a good catch and seems
> to help.
Actually, Gnus is not a memory hog as long as you build Emacs
"--without-gnutls". But with gnutls support, it's clearly leaking
memory.
Cheers,
Sven
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-22 8:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 113+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-13 9:24 Emacs bzr memory footprint Carsten Mattner
2011-10-13 10:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-13 10:33 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-10-13 10:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-13 13:08 ` Carsten Mattner
2011-10-13 13:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-13 15:22 ` Miles Bader
2011-10-13 15:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-13 16:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-13 17:33 ` Dmitry Antipov
2011-10-13 18:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-14 3:09 ` Dmitry Antipov
2011-10-13 16:46 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-13 16:59 ` Carsten Mattner
2011-10-13 13:13 ` Carsten Mattner
2011-10-13 13:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-13 14:10 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-10-13 14:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-13 15:05 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-10-13 14:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-13 16:55 ` Carsten Mattner
2011-10-13 17:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-14 12:11 ` Carsten Mattner
2011-10-14 21:02 ` John Wiegley
2011-10-15 1:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-13 17:22 ` Richard Riley
2011-10-13 16:12 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-13 20:18 ` chad
2011-10-14 12:13 ` Carsten Mattner
2011-10-14 12:18 ` Carsten Mattner
2011-10-14 15:49 ` Sven Joachim
2011-10-14 16:30 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-10-14 16:48 ` Sven Joachim
2011-10-14 17:16 ` Carsten Mattner
2011-10-15 18:12 ` Sven Joachim
2011-10-20 13:35 ` Nix
2011-10-20 23:02 ` John Wiegley
2011-10-21 0:19 ` Nix
2011-10-21 8:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-21 12:05 ` Nix
2011-10-21 12:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-21 12:47 ` Nix
2011-10-21 14:30 ` Dmitry Antipov
2011-10-21 15:22 ` Nix
2011-10-21 18:29 ` Dmitry Antipov
2011-10-21 18:36 ` Nix
2011-10-21 13:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-21 15:02 ` Nix
2011-10-21 17:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-21 19:12 ` Nix
2011-10-21 15:34 ` Dmitry Antipov
2011-10-21 18:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-21 18:27 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-21 18:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-21 19:11 ` Nix
2011-10-21 20:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-21 20:21 ` Nix
2011-10-22 7:34 ` Carsten Mattner
2011-10-22 8:30 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-22 12:03 ` Carsten Mattner
2011-10-22 16:08 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-27 22:10 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-10-28 6:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-28 9:34 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-28 9:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-28 10:22 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-28 10:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-28 11:52 ` valgrind warnings [Re: Emacs bzr memory footprint] Dan Nicolaescu
2011-10-28 14:08 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-28 14:38 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2011-10-28 15:17 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-28 15:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-28 15:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-28 16:34 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2011-10-28 18:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-28 18:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-28 18:52 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2011-10-28 19:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-28 15:08 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-12-04 21:11 ` Florian Weimer
2011-10-28 20:20 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2011-10-29 3:40 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-29 7:04 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-10-29 16:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-11-04 12:51 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2011-11-04 13:08 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-11-04 15:50 ` valgrind warnings Paul Eggert
2011-11-04 17:37 ` valgrind warnings [Re: Emacs bzr memory footprint] Stefan Monnier
2011-11-04 19:10 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2011-11-04 20:56 ` Paul Eggert
2011-11-05 22:08 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2011-11-06 2:34 ` Paul Eggert
2011-11-06 12:37 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2011-11-07 1:13 ` Paul Eggert
2011-10-29 9:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-22 8:44 ` Sven Joachim [this message]
2011-10-22 11:57 ` Emacs bzr memory footprint Carsten Mattner
2011-10-23 18:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-25 17:35 ` Nix
2011-10-25 20:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-25 20:34 ` Nix
2011-10-26 14:52 ` gnutls memory leak [Was: Re: Emacs bzr memory footprint] Chong Yidong
2011-10-27 6:10 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-27 22:01 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-10-28 12:04 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-10-28 17:29 ` Nix
2011-10-27 22:03 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-10-13 21:23 ` Emacs bzr memory footprint Dan Nicolaescu
2011-10-14 13:04 ` Carsten Mattner
2011-10-14 18:13 ` James Cloos
2011-10-17 20:52 ` Juri Linkov
2011-10-17 23:34 ` James Cloos
2011-10-18 7:24 ` Andreas Schwab
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=87wrbxza8g.fsf@turtle.gmx.de \
--to=svenjoac@gmx.de \
--cc=carstenmattner@googlemail.com \
--cc=dmantipov@yandex.ru \
--cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
--cc=monnier@iro.umontreal.ca \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.