Re: Emacs memory management and sluggishness

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Joseph Mingrone <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 19:27:06 -0300
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> > How many pages of those 1200 you viewed? Do you use PDF-Tools or Doc
> > View? If you execute `garbage-collect' does the memory go down?
> 
> > I'm asking all this because one of the possibilities is a leak on the
> > image handling code.
> 
> I just tried it again and held down 'n' to visit all pages and the
> memory stayed under 500 MB.  I am using pdf-tools v0.90.  I also just
> tried with
> https://file-examples.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/file-example_PDF_1MB.pdf
> and the memory stayed under 400 MB.  I'm somewhat confident that I
> encountered memory issues in an Emacs instance without visiting a PDF
> file.

What image library is used for that?  Is it ImageMagick or is it
something else?