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Re: Indentation and gc
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Ihor Radchenko |
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Re: Indentation and gc |
Date: |
Wed, 15 Mar 2023 12:59:05 +0000 |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Then, from what I can read, it does not look like VIRT truly represents
>> how much memory Emacs is going to use. It is safe to assume that only a
>> fraction of VIRT will be used in practice.
>
> I don't think I follow your logic.
>
> Emacs can have more memory in use than the physically installed
> amount, it just means each GC will be painfully slow, because it will
> need to swap in parts of memory and swap out other parts. In theory,
> Emacs can use all the VM there is, minus what other processes and the
> OS use.
>
> If your bother is about the "reserved" part, that is not supposed to
> be large, but maybe glibc has its own ideas about that, because your
> report about VIRT vs RES surprised me.
Then what should we collect from user session?
memory-limit represents VIRT, but it does not look terribly useful.
What exactly should we use as a metric for the effects of
gc-cons-threshold changes?
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