> From: Geoff Shannon <geoffpshannon@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 01:06:43 -0700
> Cc: 17713@debbugs.gnu.org
>That's 50MB! The default is 400000 (400K).
> > Did you customize any GC-related options, like gc-cons-threshold?
>
> I didn't personally, but I use emacs Prelude which does this:
>
> (setq gc-cons-threshold 50000000)
Could well be. It means Emacs invokes GC after it has created at
> I'm guessing that's likely the cause of this?
least 50MB worth of Lisp objects. Wading through all of them and
finding those which can be discarded will indeed take a while.
I suggest you remove that customization. The default is well tuned,
and you will hardly ever notice GC going on.