Re: Memory Usage On Emacs 24 Lucid Linux:

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:13:55 -0700
> From: "T. V. Raman" <address@hidden>
> 
> Emacs 24 built from today's git snapshot:
> 
> Starting Emacs with the same .emacs loaded:
> 
> 0. All memory on the machine goes away to Emacs (started with 9GB
> of 12GB free) -- as reported by free.
> 
> 1. After running a garbage collect in that emacs (before GC, it  
> was basically  too slow to use)
> Running proced showed an RSS of 7gb and a VSS of approx 8GB.

Could you please file a formal bug report?  One advantage of that is
that it would record all the pertinent data about your configuration,
packages that are loaded, etc.

Thanks.