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Re: Debugging emacs memory management
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Debugging emacs memory management |
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Tue, 17 Feb 2015 19:07:04 -0500 |
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> Just so I'm clear, is it normal for almost all the consumed memory to be
> "heap" memory, as I'm observing?
The "heap" memory is the memory managed by malloc. It's frequently
significantly larger than the size of the Lisp heap (it usually
includes the Lisp heap, so it's normal to be larger), because of all the
memory allocated for fonts, images, GUI widgets, you name it, ...
Stefan