Re: Observing lags or never ending processes

[Jean Louis]

* Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> [2022-09-12 14:26]:
> One way is "M-x proced RET", then look at the line of the Emacs
> process to see its current memory footprint.

  admin  8279  2.8 26.5 Sep  6 03:46:55 emacs --bg-daemon

> There are many terms that aren't in the Emacs manual.  That doesn't
> mean they cannot be used in discussions here.

Of course yes, I was thinking that VM could be virtual machine or
virtual memory and that it is related to some memory variable.

> > I have 3298 buffers now. Session is 5 days 11 hours 39 minutes.
> > 
> > $ free
> > 
> >                total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   
> > available
> > Mem:         7936724     6804608      399896      213864      732220      
> > 528252
> > Swap:        8388604     3557448     4831156
> 
> Doesn't look too bad to me, but how much of the "used" part is taken
> by Emacs?  Use proced to find out.

See above, 26.5% 

M-x memory-report  -- never ends, it just stays there "Gathering
data..."


Jean

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