Re: Emacs memory management and sluggishness

[Óscar Fuentes]

Joseph Mingrone <address@hidden> writes:

> I am seeing even more aggressive memory usage with recent master branch
> commits (at least I think this only started in the last month or so).
> Here is a screenshot that shows over 3 GB of
> RSS. https://ftfl.ca/misc/emacs_memory.png
>
> This was running commit 06726f6 from today on 12.0-RELEASE-p8.  I run
> Gnus, erc, look at an occasional PDF and edit text.  I haven't visited
> any extremely large buffers recently.  Garbage collection is happening,
> but it does not seem to help.  But, when I call `garbage-collect'
> manually there will be a long pause if I haven't called it recently,
> then the memory will usually go down to something between 100 and 400
> MB.

Do the garbage collection, take note of the used memory, visit one of
those PDF files (preferably one with large, complex & colorful images)
move around for several pages and see if emacs' memory usage grows.