GNU bug report logs - #61763
30.0.50; Image Cache Size growth

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Message #8 received at 61763 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Manuel Giraud <manuel <at> ledu-giraud.fr>
Cc: 61763 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#61763: 30.0.50; Image Cache Size growth
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2023 19:12:43 +0200

> Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2023 18:00:00 +0100
> From:  Manuel Giraud via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> 
> My image cache size grows really quick when browsing some images from
> Emacs.  My recipe:
> 
>         emacs -Q
>         M-: (clear-image-cache)
>         Then, I open a image in a directory with other images.
>         I hit 'n' 5 times (to open next 5 images).
>         Each image is a JPG of about 1.3MiB.
>         Then, M-x memory-report says:
>            366 MiB  Total Image Cache Size
> 
> With such growth, Emacs quickly tells me that the memory is exhausted.

Did you try to lower the value of image-cache-eviction-delay?

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