> On 30 Jul 2017, at 14:34, Alan Third wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 02:10:38PM +0200, Nejc Vivod wrote: >> Tried downloading from emacsformacosx.com >> (both the nightly and the stable >> version), still have the same issue - I’ve also recreated the file >> with your echo command. Not sure why it breaks like this, since the >> preinstalled emacs opens the file just fine. > > The preinstalled Emacs is ancient. Version 22 or something. Quite a > lot has changed since then. It also only works in the terminal so the > glyph display code is completely different. > >> What I did notice is, it seems to allocate a bunch of memory every >> second or so when opening that test file (looking at activity >> monitor -> Info about the process); before I force-killed it, it was >> taking up 2,39GB of ram and it didn’t seem like it would stop. >> >> I’m attaching a sample of the process, maybe this can be of help. > > I don’t really understand what that’s telling me. Is it possible for > you to run it under a debugger and send me a backtrace? > > You’ll probably have lldb installed already, so all you need to do is > run > > lldb /path/to/emacs >> run > > and once it freezes hit ctrl‐c and > >> bt all > > and send me the output. > > You are running it in GUI mode, and not in the terminal, right? > > -- > Alan Third