* Techno Implant <burhansylhet_AT_gmail.com> [2017-06-21 19:39]:
> With HISTSIZE being 2000 memory consumed is around 8MiB
> And for 40000 it's 120MiB. This is a large number for terminal.
> Whereas for urxvt I set saveLines to 65000 and it consumes less around
> 8MiB. It increases when I have more lines in scrollback .
>
> So my question is if there's a patch that can make st handle
> scrollback lines dynamically rather than preallocate.
What's the problem here? It's only virtual memory, so the Kernel should
do exactly that already.
> And also will there be any daemon mode available for st?
Why? So you can crash all terminals at once? Otherwise: If you want it,
write it ;).
Cheers Jochen
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