APA> here is some data afer running this XEmacs for ca. a day of APA> heavy use (gnus, erc, edit-faces, customize-face RET all APA> RET): APA> cons and face-cachel seem to grow quite aggressively. Given your usage pattern, they should. Gnus is a really heavy user of Lisp data, which is mostly conses, and M-x customize-face all is going to guarantee a lot of face cachel usage. The question would be whether they ever level out. -- School of Systems and Information Engineering http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.