It comes from the words “Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping”.
Yeah, the name hasn’t aged well…
It comes from the words “Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping”.
Yeah, the name hasn’t aged well…
^Zkill -9 %1
is the only way.
kill -9 -1
if that doesn’t work.
Just keeping a single frame buffer image can take tens of megabytes nowadays, so 100MB isn’t all that much. Also 64-bit can easily double the memory consumption, given how pointer-happy the ELISP data structures can be (this is somewhat based on my assumptions, I don’t actually know the memory layouts of the different Emacs data structures ;)).
But I don’t truly know, though. If I start a terminal-only Emacs without any additional lisp code it takes “only” 59232 kilobytes of resident memory. Still more than I’d expect. I’d expect something like 2 MB. But I’ll survive.