Re: Implementing image support for kitty terminal

[Jose A Ortega Ruiz]

On Fri, Sep 09 2022, Po Lu wrote:

> Jose A Ortega Ruiz <jao@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> On Fri, Sep 09 2022, Tomas Hlavaty wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu 08 Sep 2022 at 22:47, Jose A Ortega Ruiz <jao@gnu.org> wrote:
>>>> After 4-5 days of continous use, a graphical emacs is consuming around
>>>> 2Gb for me, sometimes 3Gb; emacs-nox+kitty, combined, with the same
>>>> workload except displaying images, is under 500Mb.
>>>
>>> Which graphical emacs exactly?  There are several options.
>>
>> all of them. 2Gb is usually for X11 with no-toolkit or lucid.  gtk is
>> easily in the 2.5Gb.  in wayland with pgtk, we're on the 3Gb range.  and
>> it doesn't seem to be bounded: every day of usage will add footprint (i
>> usually restart because i compile every week or so).
>
> Would you please run Emacs inside Masstif (if you have a sufficiently
> large machine) for that amount of time, and find out what is allocating
> so much memory?

pardon my ignorance: what's masstif? search engines are giving me back
just pictures of dogs!

thanks,
jao
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