Memory Usage On Emacs 24 Lucid Linux:

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

I'll check tomorrow when I get to work, but you may be correct; I
do remember setting up a histsize hack a long time ago so that
Ididn't have to remember long, complex commandline  utterances.

This would also explain why this is biting only on the office
workstation and not at either home or on the laptop.
-- 
Best Regards,
--raman

-- 
Best Regards,
--raman


On 3/13/12, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> After running emacs -q -- and then M-x shell, I see all of the
>> memory on the machine getting shewed up -- at least as reported
>> by free.
>
> Aha!
>
>> Shell: emacs -q M-x shell M-x memory-usage
>
>> Garbage collection stats:
>> ((54977 . 10205) (15045 . 0) (90 . 121) 417724 1000327014 (67 . 191)
>> (117 . 161) (25648 . 1043))
>
>>  =>	879632+163280 bytes in cons cells
>> 	722160+0 bytes in symbols
>> 	3600+4840 bytes in markers
>> 	1072+3056 bytes in floats
>> 	6552+9016 bytes in intervals
>> 	820736+33376 bytes in string headers
>> 	417724 bytes of string chars
>> 	417724 bytes of vector slots
>
>> Total bytes in lisp objects: 1003392058 (live 1003178490, dead 213568)
>
> OK, that's very helpful, it narrows it down a good deal.
> Now, all we have to figure out is how on earth does "M-x shell" create
> so many (or such large) vectors!
> Could it be you have $HISTSIZE set to a really large number?
>
>
>         Stefan
>