From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Reachable killed buffers Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 10:11:59 -0700 Message-ID: <505213DF.8050300@cs.ucla.edu> References: <504848D0.4020908@yandex.ru> <5048D826.3040103@yandex.ru> <5049C400.8070400@gmx.at> <504DB6DD.9030002@yandex.ru> <504E042E.5040100@yandex.ru> <504ECB49.4050509@yandex.ru> <50504349.7090603@gmx.at> <50509262.1070601@cs.ucla.edu> <50509533.9000502@yandex.ru> <50509698.5060108@cs.ucla.edu> <505098FB.1020801@gmx.at> <5050B151.2020304@yandex.ru> <5050CC93.3010506@cs.ucla.edu> <5051645B.9070308@cs.ucla.edu> <50520EA7.7060707@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1347556339 18241 80.91.229.3 (13 Sep 2012 17:12:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:12:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Dmitry Antipov , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 13 19:12:21 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TCCxh-0002aH-HI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 19:12:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35518 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TCCxd-0008DU-K2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 13:12:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:59160) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TCCxW-0008Ch-68 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 13:12:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TCCxM-0006ZR-QF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 13:12:10 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:34226) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TCCxM-0006ZG-KD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 13:12:00 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDD41A60004; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 10:11:59 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id f3vk7JlQJU3m; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 10:11:59 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from penguin.cs.ucla.edu (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 81172A60001; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 10:11:59 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120828 Thunderbird/15.0 In-Reply-To: <50520EA7.7060707@gmx.at> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:153285 Archived-At: On 09/13/2012 09:49 AM, martin rudalics wrote: > If a buffer on one of these lists is dead, it simply doesn't get > marked from the list, so it's possible that it's reclaimed with the > next sweep. Right, but as I understand it in the meantime it would still exist as a dead buffer, and would continue to pressure the GC. And it might inadvertently survive the next sweep too, no? The goal is to reclaim all the dead buffers, not just some of them.