Re: Implementing image support for kitty terminal

[Po Lu]

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

> On Fri, Sep 09 2022, Tomas Hlavaty wrote:
>
>> On Thu 08 Sep 2022 at 22:47, Jose A Ortega Ruiz <jao@gnu.org> wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> Which graphical emacs exactly?  There are several options.
>
> all of them. 2Gb is usually for X11 with no-toolkit or lucid.  gtk is
> easily in the 2.5Gb.  in wayland with pgtk, we're on the 3Gb range.  and
> it doesn't seem to be bounded: every day of usage will add footprint (i
> usually restart because i compile every week or so).

Would you please run Emacs inside Masstif (if you have a sufficiently
large machine) for that amount of time, and find out what is allocating
so much memory?