Re: X performance suffers under emacs 21.1.1

[Daniel Ortmann]

address@hidden (Gerd Moellmann) writes:

> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>> Gerd, could Emacs be creating lots of objects in the X server, and
>> never deleting them?  What sort of objects might they be?

> I can think only think of two server-side objects of significant size:
> Pixmaps and fonts.  What was the user doing when he saw the memory
> usage go up?

>> Daniel, how many frames did you use?  Did you make and then delete
>> many frames?

>> Does Emacs display any new images during the session (i.e., not at
>> the very beginning but only later)?

> If it were many images, what's the effect of calling clear-image-cache?

clear-image-cache worked!  And garbage-collect did nothing.

(By the way, clear-image-cache is not interactive.)

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