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From: "Francesco Potortì" <Potorti@isti.cnr.it>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: 27498@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27498: 25.2; Memory leak in M-x shell
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 20:22:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1dPYel-0008A9-M8@tucano.isti.cnr.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lgofko1i.fsf@elephly.net>

>Emacs leaks memory as lines are printed in a shell buffer.  Here is a
>recipe:
>
>    emacs -Q
>    M-x shell
>    yes "This should not leak, but it does."
>
>Observe the memory usage grow in a tool like “top”.  Once you decide
>that Emacs has eaten enough memory, kill the shell buffer.  Note that
>memory is not released.

This may be a duplicate of #26952





      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-06-26 18:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-26 11:04 bug#27498: 25.2; Memory leak in M-x shell Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-26 12:01 ` npostavs
2017-06-26 13:14   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-27  5:17   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-26 18:22 ` Francesco Potortì [this message]

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