From: Bruce via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: 55870@debbugs.gnu.org, larsi@gnus.org
Subject: bug#55870: GNU Emacs 26.3, Select All(C-x h) does not work
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2022 08:24:49 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e507b736-c95e-4018-0807-b193805c0cd9@anche.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83zgh7q4zd.fsf@gnu.org>
>Bruce, can you build Emacs with that option enabled and provide us
>with the traces?
Enable that option in configure before "make" and "make install"?
Steps to trace it after new build?
>Also, do you have some software installed on your system that could
>automatically request the clipboard contents when Emacs puts text
>there?
I will check.
Thanks, :-)
On 2022/7/17 下午8:49, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
>> Cc: brucelam1982pi@anche.no, larsi@gnus.org, 55870@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2022 19:57:20 +0800
>>
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>>> So the growing memory can only be explained by the consing of
>>> selection_value onto terminal->Vselection_alist, where selection_value
>>> is the text being copied by M-w?
>> The previous value of the selection will also be removed from
>> terminal->Vselection_alist, so it shouldn't cause memory usage to
>> constantly increase.
>>
>>> Can any of the potential requests in this situation allocate lots of
>>> memory?
>> Yes. The string is copied each time another program requests the
>> selection, and we have to allocate a buffer the size of the encoded X
>> property data each time we want to send it to another client.
>>
>> But unfortunately I can't see any obvious memory leak here. The
>> reporter should build with TRACE_SELECTION and send some of the output,
>> which could reveal, for example, bugs in the other program (possibly a
>> clipboard manager, since clipboard managers are a known problematic area
>> in the X world) that the code in xselect.c doesn't already take into
>> account.
> Bruce, can you build Emacs with that option enabled and provide us
> with the traces?
>
> Also, do you have some software installed on your system that could
> automatically request the clipboard contents when Emacs puts text
> there? If so, perhaps disabling that software will resolve the
> problem.
>
> Thanks.
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Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-09 8:50 bug#55870: GNU Emacs 26.3, Select All(C-x h) does not work Bruce via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-09 14:57 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
[not found] ` <1fc51cba-c767-2e5f-e0be-6e0f8d7d1df6@anche.no>
2022-06-10 12:44 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-07-11 11:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
[not found] ` <92253b43-50a1-554e-de66-f31f0c423b1f@anche.no>
2022-07-12 12:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-07-13 3:01 ` Bruce via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-13 10:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-07-13 11:12 ` Visuwesh
2022-07-13 11:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-14 9:50 ` Bruce via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-14 10:02 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-07-14 10:09 ` Bruce via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-14 10:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-15 12:44 ` Bruce via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-15 13:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-16 0:15 ` Bruce via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-16 5:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-17 2:38 ` Bruce via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-17 6:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-17 7:27 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-17 7:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-17 8:41 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-17 10:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-17 11:57 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-17 12:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-17 13:07 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-18 0:27 ` Bruce via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-18 1:01 ` Bruce via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-18 0:24 ` Bruce via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2022-06-09 16:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
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