Re: [solved, mostly] CSRSS.EXE uses alarming amount of VM when Emacs is running

[Jason Rumney]

Eric Hanchrow <address@hidden> writes:

> Apparently, Emacs was starting a number of invisible cmd.exes, each of
> which was allocating a ton of memory for its window ... despite the
> window's being invisible ;-|

It starts one such window. The reason for this is so that "emacs -nw"
can work with the same executable.

> If anyone wants to repro this, here are the exact steps.

I don't see what we can do. By telling the system that you want a
9999x9999 buffer for your command windows you are telling it to
allocate almost 100Mb for every such window - maybe double that by the
sounds of your report - but that is an issue with csrss.exe, not with
Emacs. If you used a free operating system, you might be able to look
at the source to see if you could change it to not allocate that
memory until it was actually used.

-- 
Jason Rumney