Re: Emacs bzr memory footprint

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:33:54 +0400
> From: Dmitry Antipov <address@hidden>
> 
> I tried the following simple scenario with latest bzr trunk:
> 
> 1. Run ./src/emacs, then eval (length features), which gives 88. VSS/RSS is 
> 195436/18656 Kb.
> 2. Run ./src/emacs `find . -name '*.el' -o -name '*.[ch]'`, wait, eval 
> (length features) =>
>     100, (length (buffer-list)) => 1990. VSS/RSS is 309264/132656 kb.
> 3. After (mapcar 'kill-buffer (buffer-list)), VSS/RSS is 273620/97132 kb.
> 
> I believe 97132 - 18656 = 78476 kb of physical memory is too much for 12 Lisp 
> libraries.
> Where is the rest? Or, what's wrong with this scenario?

What is the return value of (garbage-collect), before and after these
actions?