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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
To: Peter Ludemann <peter.ludemann@gmail.com>
Cc: 38629@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38629: 25.2; garbage-collect doesn't reclaim large *compilation*
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2019 09:24:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a77scprp.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHjfyZ3Mfw+gqtyJie4Z2d=Je5bNYSouDPQ_t1wUsR4ZXVH2dw@mail.gmail.com> (Peter Ludemann's message of "Sun, 15 Dec 2019 11:58:22 -0800")

Peter Ludemann <peter.ludemann@gmail.com> writes:

> I ran a large compilation (to the *compilation* buffer) (232,701 lines,
> 52M).

> In GNU Emacs 25.2.2 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.21)
>  of 2017-09-22, modified by Debian built on lgw01-amd64-050
> Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11906000
> System Description: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS

I think this is a variant of Bug#26952 - "repeated buffer insertion
(e.g. yank-rectangle) consumes excessive memory (4GB+ for 90MB of
text)".  I recommend upgrading to version 26.







  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-12-16 14:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-15 19:58 bug#38629: 25.2; garbage-collect doesn't reclaim large *compilation* Peter Ludemann
2019-12-16  4:16 ` bug#38629: Loading/killing the compilation output doesn't lose memory Peter Ludemann
2019-12-16 14:24 ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2019-12-16 16:48   ` bug#38629: 25.2; garbage-collect doesn't reclaim large *compilation* Peter Ludemann
2019-12-16 23:37   ` Peter Ludemann
2019-12-17  0:19     ` Peter Ludemann
2019-12-17 13:14       ` Noam Postavsky

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