Re: Memory usage report

[Ihor Radchenko]

> Personally, when that extra data is smaller than the Lisp heap, I don't
> care to know where it's spent.

It indeed does not matter when the heap size is small. However, memory
usage tends to grow over time. My Emacs instance currently uses 976Mb
memory with 463MB in lisp objects and 25.8MB in buffers. The extra
non-lisp object size is almost same with the lisp object size (487.2MB). 

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>>> top shows more than 200Mb memory increase.
>>> Which are explained by the statistics produced by GC.  IOW, you have
>>> many more live Lisp objects, which take up those megabytes.
>> I meant that 200Mb is Lisp objects, but top shows more then 200Mb
>> (around 300Mb).  So, there is extra 100Mb coming from somewhere else.
>
> Personally, when that extra data is smaller than the Lisp heap, I don't
> care to know where it's spent.
>
>
>         Stefan