From: Eric Cook <llua@gmx.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Memory usage of history?
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 18:57:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e60f30fb-235c-8104-ab20-0c0a9a947090@gmx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160624134706.GA22704@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On 06/24/2016 09:47 AM, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> Could someone please explain the implications of having a large
> history file?
Uses more disk space
> Does an interactive zsh read the history file into
> private memory upon startup, or how does this work?
zsh reads $HISTSIZE number of lines from $HISTFILE upon startup.
which may be the same size as $SAVEHIST, which controls the
number of lines to keep in $HISTFILE.
> Is there a way to reduce memory and cpu consumption somehow? (A colleague
> says his zshs use 200 MB memory each with a history size of a
> million lines).
Reducing the number of lines you tell zsh to keep in memory via
HISTSIZE would help.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-24 23:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-24 13:47 Dominik Vogt
2016-06-24 22:57 ` Eric Cook [this message]
2016-06-25 1:47 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-06-25 17:33 ` Nikolay Aleksandrovich Pavlov (ZyX)
2016-06-25 17:46 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-06-26 23:29 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-06-27 0:23 ` Nikolay Aleksandrovich Pavlov (ZyX)
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