Re: emacs resource usage

[Jan D.]

> Has anyone here tested emacs X resource usage with xrestop say.
>
> Mathieu reported that Emacs 21.3 and cvs --with-gtk seems to leak 
> memory
> considerably when displaying graphics.
>
>   http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=120677
>
> Probably something worth investigating more.

Have you tried lowering the value of image-cache-eviction-delay?
Try a couple of minutes.

        Jan D.