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Re: Observing lags or never ending processes
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Jean Louis |
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Re: Observing lags or never ending processes |
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Mon, 19 Sep 2022 21:43:57 +0300 |
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Mutt/+ () (2022-06-11) |
* Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> [2022-09-17 09:02]:
> > Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2022 22:06:28 +0300
> > From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
> > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> >
> > * Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> [2022-09-11 16:18]:
> > > I suggest to begin by saying
> > >
> > > M-x set-variable RET garbage-collection-messages RET t RET
> > >
> > > and then see if, when "something starts in the background", you see
> > > the telltale "Garbage collecting..." message in the echo area.
> >
> > I have observed it and I think that sometimes garbage collection is
> > invoked without message being visible
>
> I don't believe this is possible.
>
> But if GC is responsible for those "lags", then it's normal Emacs
> operation, and you should look into changing your use patterns and
> packages you load so as to make the memory footprint of your Emacs
> sessions smaller, preferably so that it is never swapped out of
> physical memory. If you customized the GC threshold to a much higher
> value, lower it. Or maybe you have some other memory-intensive
> programs on your system that create situations where some of Emacs's
> memory is swapped out. These are all reasons for GC being much slower
> than it's supposed to be.
How exactly can I change use patterns?
I am human, and I cannot calculate memory and what. Does Emacs have
limit option to not load packages over specific memory?
Today I was waiting 1 hour for garbage collection, two times, before I
killed Emacs.
And M-x memory-report never returns as well.
Jean
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- Re: Observing lags or never ending processes, (continued)
- Re: Observing lags or never ending processes, Jean Louis, 2022/09/11
- Re: Observing lags or never ending processes, Jean Louis, 2022/09/11
- Re: Observing lags or never ending processes, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/09/11
- Re: Observing lags or never ending processes, Jean Louis, 2022/09/12
- Re: Observing lags or never ending processes, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/09/12
- Re: Observing lags or never ending processes, Jean Louis, 2022/09/12
- Re: Observing lags or never ending processes, Jean Louis, 2022/09/12
- Re: Observing lags or never ending processes, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/09/12
- Re: Observing lags or never ending processes, Jean Louis, 2022/09/16
- Re: Observing lags or never ending processes, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/09/17
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- Re: Observing lags or never ending processes, Jean Louis, 2022/09/23
- Re: Observing lags or never ending processes, Jean Louis, 2022/09/23
- Re: Observing lags or never ending processes, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/09/23
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