Re: X performance suffers under emacs 21.1.1

[Richard Stallman]

    _Immediately_ after stopping the emacs gnus and completely exiting
    the emacs session (but leaving the X settion up!) ... I get the
    following memory usage:

    X memory usage went from *185MB* down to *10MB*!!!

    last pid:  7956;  load averages:  0.18,  0.52,  0.56  up 1+02:45:59    
00:33:53
    25 processes:  1 running, 24 sleeping

    Mem: 9596K Active, 5140K Inact, 11M Wired, 1148K Cache, 14M Buf, 34M Free
    Swap: 300M Total, 5244K Used, 295M Free, 1% Inuse


      PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
     7956 ortmann   33   0  1892K   932K RUN      0:00  9.00%  0.44% top
      258 root       2   0  9612K  5284K select  91:54  0.00%  0.00% XF86_S3

Gerd, could Emacs be creating lots of objects in the X server, and
never deleting them?  What sort of objects might they be?

Daniel, how many frames did you use?  Did you make and then delete
many frames?

Does Emacs display any new images during the session (i.e., not at the
very beginning but only later)?