Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!njin!princeton!njsmu!telesci!kindred From: kindred@dopey.telesci.UUCP (David L Kindred (Dave)) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs Subject: Garbage Collecting (and Memory Usage) Message-ID: Date: 6 Sep 89 23:11:05 GMT Sender: news@telesci.UUCP Distribution: gnu Organization: Telesciences CO Systems, Inc. Lines: 23 Having used GNU Emacs for a while, and having had the opportunity to upgrade it from 18.52 to 18.54, and do other various assorted things, I do not recall ever seeing a discussion of Memory Usage versus Garbage Collection Frequency versus Garbage Collection Duration. I have read that Garbage Collection is linked to CONSing, not memory availability, but would like to know more about the relationships between all of the above. Has anyone with the knowledge needed done a study to determine the "best" Garbage Collection parameters for any given environment? In particular, I'm wondering about the best method of making it least obtrusive. Is there any "published" material available covering this? I realize that it is not intentional, but garbage collection seems to occur at the most frustrating moments... (If it makes any difference, I'm running Emacs 18.54 on a Sun 3/50 with 4 Meg of RAM. I should have a 8 meg 3/60 or 3/80 by October. I hope that the extra 4 meg will ease some of my problems.) - Dave -- EMail: kindred@telesci.UUCP (...!princeton!telesci!kindred) Phone: +1 609 866 1000 x222 Snail: TeleSciences C O Systems, 351 New Albany Rd, Moorestown, NJ 08057-1177