Re: Emacs memory usage

[Jean Louis]

Dear Eli,

You mentioned to observe the vsize, and now I do observe it for last 1
day and 16 hours under this command:

MTRACE_CTL_FILE=/home/data1/protected/tmp/mtraceEMACS.mtr
LD_PRELOAD=/home/data1/protected/Programming/git/glibc-malloc-trace-utils/libmtrace.so
 emacs

My vsize grows very slowly, now is just (vsize 1310672) and symon-mode
reports 185 MB swap. And my session runs well without re-compiling, so
it is really surprising that it did not start making problems again.

If you think that vsize is pointer to the problem and that we shall
track visually what do we do that it starts increasing, maybe I could
make a function that logs what we do. Those major commands. Is there
some way to log the major commands?

For example after running M-x shell to log the command including the
vsize after the command.

Would that bring better insight?