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[feature/native-comp] Excessive memory consumption on windows 10

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From: Andrea Corallo <akrl <at> sdf.org>
To: Édouard Debry <edouard.debry <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 45705 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#45705: [feature/native-comp] Excessive memory consumption
 on windows 10
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2021 20:55:35 +0000

Édouard Debry <edouard.debry <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> On windows 10, I noticed that emacs could use a lot of memory, up to
> 6Go and
> sometimes more. The memory consumption goes up and down from time to
> time while
> I am not running any specific program in emacs, apart `lsp-java`
>
> As my personal computer has 16Go of RAM, I can afford
> it. Unfortunately, my work
> computer has much less and the whole compute completely freezes at one
> point
> when using emacs.
>
> I did not notice that behavior on linux. I do not know if the master
> branch has
> the same problem. What could be the problem ?

Hi Édouard,

AFAIK was never proved recently Emacs garbage collector is failing to
recall memory, so I guess this is just some Lisp program that is
allocating a lot of memory keeping then those objects referenced.

Others may have more detaliled info about.

  Andrea

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