Re: Emacs bzr memory footprint

[Sven Joachim]

On 2011-10-14 18:30 +0200, Ted Zlatanov wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:49:16 +0200 Sven Joachim <address@hidden> wrote: 
>
> SJ> I'm also experiencing memory leaks.  My current session is at 82M, with
> SJ> the accumulated size of all buffers less than 1M; visiting files and
> SJ> then deleting their buffers does not increase memory footprint, but Gnus
> SJ> usage (visiting groups and articles) slowly but steadily does.
>
> It's possible GnuTLS usage is part of the problem.  Do you use it?

Yes.

> Another possibility is libxml, used by the Gnus SHR HTML renderer.  Do
> you look at articles with HTML content a lot?

No, rarely.

> It could also be the way that SHR loads images.  Do those articles have
> images?

Very few have.

> Could you try *not* to use each possibly problematic feature above and
> see if the memory usage is affected?

Is setting starttls-use-gnutls to nil enough to disable the first
feature?  And how do I disable the second and third?

Cheers,
       Sven