From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: memory leak Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 12:07:57 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <200604291707.k3TH7v8b002343@jane.dms.auburn.edu> References: <200604290156.k3T1uecx028681@jane.dms.auburn.edu> <200604291406.k3TE6Rhc001999@jane.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1146330545 12903 80.91.229.2 (29 Apr 2006 17:09:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 17:09:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 29 19:09:03 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FZswI-0000vb-Sc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 19:09:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FZswI-0004d2-DL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 13:09:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FZsw2-0004aJ-On for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 13:08:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FZsw0-0004ZD-DG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 13:08:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FZsvz-0004YX-RX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 13:08:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FZszO-0001uP-Lc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 13:12:14 -0400 Original-Received: from jane.dms.auburn.edu (jane.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.201]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k3TH8gZt024324; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 12:08:42 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from jane.dms.auburn.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jane.dms.auburn.edu (8.13.4+Sun/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k3TH7vvq002346; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 12:07:57 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by jane.dms.auburn.edu (8.13.4+Sun/8.13.3/Submit) id k3TH7v8b002343; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 12:07:57 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: jane.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: bob@rattlesnake.com In-reply-to: (bob@rattlesnake.com) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:53603 Archived-At: Robert Chassell wrote: No, I was not running top when I did the measurements, but I was running a lot of processes. At one point, I thought that Firefox was the culprit, but it appears not. I don't know where to go from here, excepting onto another machine. Is there any reason why you can not identify the culprit by running top, ordered by memory consumption, whenever the problem occurs? I guess you can also use ps if you prefer static output. You can just start top and press `h' to see how to specify sort order (it varies with the top implementation). The actual options you have to give to ps to sort by size or resident memory also vary from implementation to implementation, but they are in the man pages. Sincerely, Luc.