Re: Observing lags or never ending processes

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2022 21:43:57 +0300
> From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> > But if GC is responsible for those "lags", then it's normal Emacs
> > operation, and you should look into changing your use patterns and
> > packages you load so as to make the memory footprint of your Emacs
> > sessions smaller, preferably so that it is never swapped out of
> > physical memory.  If you customized the GC threshold to a much higher
> > value, lower it.  Or maybe you have some other memory-intensive
> > programs on your system that create situations where some of Emacs's
> > memory is swapped out.  These are all reasons for GC being much slower
> > than it's supposed to be.
> 
> How exactly can I change use patterns?

How should I know?  I don't even know what are your present use
patterns, which packages you routinely load, which ones you use
frequently, how many buffers are typically present in your session,
etc. etc.

> Today I was waiting 1 hour for garbage collection, two times, before I
> killed Emacs.

Did you change the GC thresholds?  (I asked that above, but you didn't
answer.)