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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Sebastien Vauban <sva-news@mygooglest.com>
Cc: 15156@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15156: 24.3; !MEM FULL!
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 12:58:23 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83eh92mfuo.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86a9jqs2un.fsf@somewhere.org>

> From: "Sebastien Vauban" <sva-news@mygooglest.com>
> Cc: 15156@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 11:42:40 +0200
> 
> > Anyway, putting a break at xmalloc conditioned by some large
> > allocation size might show who is requesting this much memory.  I
> > don't see how this can be investigated otherwise without some
> > debugging.
> 
> If you have a recipe which does not constrain too much my daily usage of
> Emacs, I'm willing to apply it.

Something like

  (gdb) break xmalloc if size > 10000
  (gdb) commands
         > bt
	 > continue
	 > end
  (gdb)

And similarly for xzalloc and xrealloc.

Then run Emacs as usual, and the code which allocates these large
chunks of memory will be shown in the backtraces.

> [1] I'd be interested by knowing what something similar you use...

Nothing.  I don't need that.





  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-06  9:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-21 20:26 bug#15156: 24.3; !MEM FULL! Sebastien Vauban
2013-08-22  2:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <mailman.538.1377139997.10748.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
     [not found]   ` <mailman.538.1377139997.10748.bug-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org>
2013-08-22  7:16     ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-08-22 14:57       ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]       ` <mailman.570.1377183494.10748.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-08-22 15:14         ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-08-22 16:00           ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-22 16:55           ` Dani Moncayo
2013-08-23  7:09 ` martin rudalics
     [not found]   ` <52170AC5.1070109-RbZlAiThDcE@public.gmane.org>
2013-08-23 22:22     ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-08-24  6:38       ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-24  8:55       ` martin rudalics
     [not found]         ` <52187509.4030904-RbZlAiThDcE@public.gmane.org>
2013-08-24 13:57           ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-08-24 14:27             ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]               ` <83sixzgo52.fsf-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org>
2013-08-25  7:39                 ` Sebastien Vauban
     [not found]       ` <mailman.679.1377326354.10748.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
     [not found]         ` <mailman.679.1377326354.10748.bug-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org>
2013-09-05 13:21           ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-09-05 14:22             ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]               ` <83sixjbb6x.fsf-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org>
2013-09-05 14:26                 ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-09-05 14:48                   ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]                     ` <83ob87b9yy.fsf-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org>
2013-09-06  8:55                       ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-09-06  9:20                         ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]                           ` <83ioyemhl4.fsf-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org>
2013-09-06  9:42                             ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-09-06  9:58                               ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
     [not found]                               ` <mailman.1455.1378461557.10748.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
     [not found]                                 ` <mailman.1455.1378461557.10748.bug-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org>
2013-09-06 12:17                                   ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-09-06 13:15                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]                                     ` <mailman.1471.1378473374.10748.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
     [not found]                                       ` <mailman.1471.1378473374.10748.bug-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org>
2013-09-17  8:15                                         ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-09-17  8:23                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] <mailman.519.1377116896.10748.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
     [not found] ` <mailman.519.1377116896.10748.bug-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org>
2013-08-21 20:54   ` Sebastien Vauban

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