From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#15156: 24.3; !MEM FULL! Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 12:58:23 +0300 Message-ID: <83eh92mfuo.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8638q2iye5.fsf@somewhere.org> <52170AC5.1070109@gmx.at> <86ppt4nj2l.fsf@somewhere.org> <8661uf2yl6.fsf@somewhere.org> <83sixjbb6x.fsf@gnu.org> <86wqmv1h0b.fsf@somewhere.org> <83ob87b9yy.fsf@gnu.org> <86eh92s50k.fsf@somewhere.org> <83ioyemhl4.fsf@gnu.org> <86a9jqs2un.fsf@somewhere.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1378461560 23749 80.91.229.3 (6 Sep 2013 09:59:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 09:59:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 15156@debbugs.gnu.org To: Sebastien Vauban Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 06 11:59:21 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VHsox-0007j3-2v for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Sep 2013 11:59:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36319 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VHsow-0007ex-QF for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Sep 2013 05:59:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43335) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VHsoo-0007eh-SE for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Sep 2013 05:59:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VHsoh-0005bF-0a for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Sep 2013 05:59:10 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:34863) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VHsog-0005bB-TV for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Sep 2013 05:59:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VHsog-0007g8-96 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Sep 2013 05:59:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 09:59:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 15156 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs,w32 X-GNU-PR-Keywords: moreinfo Original-Received: via spool by 15156-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B15156.137846152129486 (code B ref 15156); Fri, 06 Sep 2013 09:59:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 15156) by debbugs.gnu.org; 6 Sep 2013 09:58:41 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43156 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VHsoK-0007fW-Pl for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 06 Sep 2013 05:58:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:58152) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VHsoI-0007fF-4d for 15156@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 06 Sep 2013 05:58:39 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MSP00L007INSM00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for 15156@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 06 Sep 2013 12:58:31 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MSP00LJG7PJQ430@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 06 Sep 2013 12:58:31 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <86a9jqs2un.fsf@somewhere.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:78041 Archived-At: > From: "Sebastien Vauban" > 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.