Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>: > Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> writes: >> Emacs occasionally hangs for about a minute to perform garbage >> collection. > > I've never experienced that, especially with more recent versions that I > think do a little bit of heap tidying in the background. Even in the > era of much slower computers I never saw an Emacs GC pause of more than > a second or two unless something had run amuck and exhausted memory. > It's always near imperceptible in my experience now. Is your system > swapping or something?
I can't be positive about swapping. I don't remember hearing thrashing. However, I do admit running emacs for months on end and occasionally with huge buffers so the resident size can be a couple of gigabytes. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
