* bug#17395: GC during idle time becomes fatal
@ 2014-05-03 8:00 Richard Stallman
2014-05-03 8:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-04 4:00 ` Stefan Monnier
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From: Richard Stallman @ 2014-05-03 8:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 17395
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I updated from the trunk on May 1, and since then, Emacs seems to GC a
lot when idle. I am not sure it is GC, but I don't know what else it could be,
and a couple of times Emacs died because I typed C-g at it during that time
and said it was fatal to have an error in GC.
(It is a bug that C-g C-g during GC causes a crash.)
Over time, GC takes longer and longer. Once I had to kill Emacs
because it went a few minutes without finishing a GC. A couple of
times, it crashed saying memory was full.
The previously reported problem, applying to epa decryption still
occurs: decryption never finishes. When I type C-g while it is hung,
I get a message asking me whether to kill the epa process that is
still running. If I say yes, Emacs responds again but the decryption
has not been done.
I could get more info about that, with some trouble.
I don't know how to give more info about the GC problem.
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* bug#17395: GC during idle time becomes fatal
2014-05-03 8:00 bug#17395: GC during idle time becomes fatal Richard Stallman
@ 2014-05-03 8:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-04 4:11 ` Richard Stallman
2014-05-04 4:00 ` Stefan Monnier
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From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2014-05-03 8:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: rms; +Cc: 17395
> Date: Sat, 03 May 2014 04:00:38 -0400
> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
>
> I updated from the trunk on May 1, and since then, Emacs seems to GC a
> lot when idle. I am not sure it is GC, but I don't know what else it could be,
> and a couple of times Emacs died because I typed C-g at it during that time
> and said it was fatal to have an error in GC.
Please use your ~/.bzr.log to see when was your previous update from
trunk, and to what bzr revision did you update back then.
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* bug#17395: GC during idle time becomes fatal
2014-05-03 8:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2014-05-04 4:11 ` Richard Stallman
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From: Richard Stallman @ 2014-05-04 4:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eli Zaretskii; +Cc: 17395
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My previous update was
[14354] 2014-04-24 00:08:25.751 INFO: Updated to revision 117017 of branch bzr+ssh://rms@bzr.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/trunk
That is when the decryption bug appeared. I don't know whether the GC
bug appeared in that version too, because I did not run it for very
long.
before that was
[11166] 2014-04-02 12:56:08.059 INFO: Updated to revision 116929 of branch bzr+ssh://rms@bzr.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/trunk
but I did not build it then. The last version that really worked
was this:
[16633] 2014-03-18 07:22:45.537 INFO: Updated to revision 116791 of branch bzr+ssh://rms@bzr.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/trunk
I am sure neither of these bugs was in that version.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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* bug#17395: GC during idle time becomes fatal
2014-05-03 8:00 bug#17395: GC during idle time becomes fatal Richard Stallman
2014-05-03 8:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2014-05-04 4:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-05-05 6:59 ` Richard Stallman
2014-05-05 7:00 ` Richard Stallman
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From: Stefan Monnier @ 2014-05-04 4:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Richard Stallman; +Cc: 17395
> (It is a bug that C-g C-g during GC causes a crash.)
Indeed. And not one I've heard before.
> Over time, GC takes longer and longer. Once I had to kill Emacs
> because it went a few minutes without finishing a GC. A couple of
> times, it crashed saying memory was full.
IOW, the problem is not that the GC is taking longer but that the memory
is filling up with many Lisp objects. You can try M-x profiler-start
RET mem RET ... use Emacs for a while ... M-x profiler-report.
Tho this will only shows us where memory is allocated, which will
contain lots of places where that memory is later correctly reclaimed.
You can also try the install memory-usage (from GNU ELPA) and then M-x
memory-usage RET. Again, it won't give us very much info, but might
still be helpful.
Stefan
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2014-05-04 4:00 ` Stefan Monnier
@ 2014-05-05 6:59 ` Richard Stallman
2014-05-05 7:00 ` Richard Stallman
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From: Richard Stallman @ 2014-05-05 6:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Stefan Monnier; +Cc: 17395
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IOW, the problem is not that the GC is taking longer but that the memory
is filling up with many Lisp objects. You can try M-x profiler-start
RET mem RET ... use Emacs for a while ... M-x profiler-report.
I have tried this. I can't understand the answers, though. I did
profiler-report several times, and each time it displays more than a
meg. Once it reported over 7 meg.
I did it in a session where I did real work, and got this:
+ redisplay_internal (C function) 29,776,412 0%
tooltip-hide 8,215,721 0%
+ timer-event-handler 336,066 0%
+ compilation-sentinel 333,520 0%
+ isearch-pre-command-hook 262,144 0%
internal-timer-start-idle 140,161 0%
undefined 131,072 0%
+ compilation-filter 26,200 0%
clear-transient-map 4,120 0%
+ clear-transient-map 1,040 0%
+ clear-transient-map 1,040 0%
... 0 0%
+ command-execute -452333584 0%
But the problem had not happened.
You can also try the install memory-usage (from GNU ELPA)
How?
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President, Free Software Foundation
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USA
www.fsf.org www.gnu.org
Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software.
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2014-05-04 4:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-05-05 6:59 ` Richard Stallman
@ 2014-05-05 7:00 ` Richard Stallman
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From: Richard Stallman @ 2014-05-05 7:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Stefan Monnier; +Cc: 17395
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I can reproduce the frequent and slow GC. Once decryption fails, and
I quit out of waiting for it, GC becomes quite frequent.
Quitting asks me
Buffer " *epg*" has a running process; kill it?
I say yes, but afterward there is still a running process called epg.
And each successive decryption attempt creates another process. I
suppose that is responsible for the frequent garbage collections and
filling up memory. It seems to GC after every few chars I type, but
not while Emacs is idle.
So the only real bug is the one affecting decryption.
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Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
51 Franklin St
Boston MA 02110
USA
www.fsf.org www.gnu.org
Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software.
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