Hi Eli,
I use emacs to write academic papers. This means that the follow packages/modes are generally active:
- auctex
- reftex
- flyspell
- company
- pdf-view (using pdftools)
- Ebib
- Org
I often have 3 to 4 emacs window/frame open for many days. Emacs uses normal amount of memory initially but after three or four days, the amount of memory it has used has grown enormously. I have not changed the settings of the garbage collector. Its current value is:
gc-cons-threshold is a variable defined in ‘C source code’.
Its value is 800000
I can run tests on my machine if you think that would be helpful.
Best regards,