Re: Implementing image support for kitty terminal

[Óscar Fuentes]

Jose A Ortega Ruiz <jao@gnu.org> writes:

>> How is kitty not heavy-weight?
>> A graphical emacs already has all that.
>
> After 4-5 days of continous use, a graphical emacs is consuming around
> 2Gb for me, sometimes 3Gb; emacs-nox+kitty, combined, with the same
> workload except displaying images, is under 500Mb.  foot is even
> slimmer.

In my experience of many years, Emacs RSS usage stabilizes around ~500
MB, which is what it is using right now in this box with M-x
emacs-uptime of 36 days. When it grows larger is because of some
extension eating memory or, more rarely, a bug in Emacs.

Take a look at the output of M-x memory-report.

If that is not enlightening, look for extensions that you use in GUI
Emacs and not in TUI Emacs, disable them and see if GUI Emacs' memory
keeps growing.