From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrea Corallo via "Emacs development discussions." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: gcmh-mode Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 08:35:34 +0000 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Andrea Corallo Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="15277"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jean Louis Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 17 09:39:40 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kewWZ-0003q1-Ix for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2020 09:39:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53266 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kewWY-0008VP-LU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2020 03:39:38 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34310) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kewSj-0005V8-Qc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2020 03:35:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mx.sdf.org ([205.166.94.24]:53126) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kewSh-0007il-K1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2020 03:35:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mab (ma.sdf.org [205.166.94.33]) by mx.sdf.org (8.15.2/8.14.5) with ESMTP id 0AH8ZYOI008361; Tue, 17 Nov 2020 08:35:34 GMT In-Reply-To: (Jean Louis's message of "Tue, 17 Nov 2020 07:57:38 +0300") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=205.166.94.24; envelope-from=akrl@sdf.org; helo=mx.sdf.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/11/17 03:35:35 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = ??? X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:259278 Archived-At: Jean Louis writes: > * Andrea Corallo via "Emacs development discussions. [2020-11-17 00:28]: >> Hi all, >> >> I'd like to propose GCMH as GNU Elpa package. >> >> It enforces a sneaky Garbage Collection strategy to minimize GC >> interference with user activity. > > I have tried it, enabled it, and watched on side. Then I came back and > could find Emacs swapping or doing something with memory that I could > not interrupt it or see what is going on. > > I had to killall emacs You may want to tweak `gcmh-high-cons-threshold' and `gcmh-idle-delay' depending on your needs and machine you are on. That said if you need some help please provide more details filing a bug report, otherwise is difficult to understand what's the cause. This kind of generic messages are of little help into progressing with issues. Andrea