ESR "Waning of Python" post

[Marko Rauhamaa]

Paul Rubin <no.email at nospam.invalid>:

> Marko Rauhamaa <marko at 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