Re: Emacs bzr memory footprint

[Sven Joachim]

On 2011-10-14 14:18 +0200, Carsten Mattner wrote:

> For the record, I also use evil, because I can't live without
> the quick and efficient editing of vi command mode.
> It's a mix of vi and Emacs bindings combining the best
> of both worlds.
> I like Emacs and its extensibility, but miss efficient editing
> of vi's command mode. I'm not particularly in favor of
> vi(m) itself.
> I mean even when I play around with Haskell's Yi editor
> framework I tend to use the vi input configuration.
>
> Should I also try to disable evil?

Probably won't help much.

> From what I see in others' memory footprints my experience
> doesn't seem uncommon.
> Therefore I don't actually believe I have a local issue that's
> specific to my config.

I'm also experiencing memory leaks.  My current session is at 82M, with
the accumulated size of all buffers less than 1M; visiting files and
then deleting their buffers does not increase memory footprint, but Gnus
usage (visiting groups and articles) slowly but steadily does.

Sven