Hi Leo,

[catching up my mail stack, sorry for the delay]

I found quite a few people in their .emacs setting gc-cons-threshold to
a different value than the default 400000.

I did.

I wonder if there is a guidance for setting this value.

So do I. I remember increasing it after several Gnus crashes but
I did it without reflexion on what value to put here :)

If you manage to get a valid answer here, I am really interested
in reading it.

Regards,

Xavier

There used to be some benefit to setting it higher for large Emacs sessions
(where GC can take a long time) since it would reduce the frequency of those
GCs. In Emacs-22, this is not needed any more because of the new
`gc-cons-percentage' variable which automatically causes the limit to grow
as the Emacs process grows, thus preserving a more or less constant
GC overhead.

Stefan

There used to be some benefit to setting it higher for large Emacs sessions
(where GC can take a long time) since it would reduce the frequency of those
GCs. In Emacs-22, this is not needed any more because of the new
`gc-cons-percentage' variable which automatically causes the limit to grow
as the Emacs process grows, thus preserving a more or less constant
GC overhead.

Thank you Stefan for your clarifications.

Xavier