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From: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>
To: 9221@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9221: Memory leak
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:53:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <821ux3mkto.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvtya0pn55.fsf@iro.umontreal.ca>

On Tue 02 Aug 2011, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
>> Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 22:23:18 -0400
>> 
>> I'm seeing some weird behavior linked to insane memory consumption.
>> E.g. my Gnus session tends to grow to more than 2GB and then become
>> unusage and unkillable (or close enough: in D state, "kill -9" isn't
>> enough to make it stop use CPU, tho I guess that CPU use is really due
>> to something like the OS being in the process of dumping the core file,
>> tho I don't see any left over core files).
>
> Does anyone else see similar memory footprint growth?

Yes. My w32 buildon WinXP also shows ever-growing memory consumption.
The growth rate is slower if I add:

(setq-default bidi-display-reordering nil)

but emacs grows to >1GB anyway - it just takes longer. I haven't
biesected this yet, but I can do so if it helps.

    AndyM






  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-08-02 23:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-02  2:23 bug#9221: Memory leak Stefan Monnier
2011-08-02  4:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-02 11:17   ` Antoine Levitt
2011-08-02 11:37     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-02 12:18       ` Antoine Levitt
2011-08-02 23:53   ` Andy Moreton [this message]
2011-08-03  3:03     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-03  9:04       ` Andy Moreton
2011-08-03 14:06         ` Andy Moreton
2011-08-04 22:14           ` Andy Moreton
2011-08-04 22:33             ` Antoine Levitt
2011-08-05 11:16             ` Eli Zaretskii

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