From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Colascione Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: (heap 1024 82721 1933216) Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 05:39:30 -0800 Message-ID: <52DA8412.2080009@dancol.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1390052388 26217 80.91.229.3 (18 Jan 2014 13:39:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 13:39:48 +0000 (UTC) To: Emacs developers Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 18 14:39:56 2014 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 1W4W7v-0000dl-BY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 14:39:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42898 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4W7u-0001vX-PB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 08:39:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40610) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4W7m-0001vC-GN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 08:39:52 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4W7b-0007Tu-0g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 08:39:46 -0500 Original-Received: from dancol.org ([2600:3c01::f03c:91ff:fedf:adf3]:46074) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4W7a-0007Tk-K2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 08:39:34 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=dancol.org; s=x; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:Subject:To:MIME-Version:From:Date:Message-ID; bh=c3XO6R8FA5zLnucSqkrsHfXNpY9nF68I3EQTg7T8Kf8=; b=prFhq+X4DzEsumFIbtQEsdMvnyI/3KIkKRnzp3osaExyVbnONsTZJSWvocaruGlNGnfq9pZC2s0zLPBu2f8mw3FaNVoFXdhvnNL1okUzMCPIvmATa1sd6tlRJAxi8/G0OLHZurjA77rPmib5We5L+p8KQxApqV4BJZWxrXH+BgilBUav8ZoI6bqbjX6Hx5VipeFskisOgKrTrC5Op0y9+cepjYgqqIzCf8F4uMhZa9pv6XmIHpYjs5d+bTuUIfMVaHfHiTWzbX6sq8WhO2uU7SL0B+B37iGFIxQTNk5GfU1rwJPTQdchEwc6NE1Lu9sKoSKxi+QwIk7r/ADhIHYXHg==; Original-Received: from c-76-104-210-106.hsd1.wa.comcast.net ([76.104.210.106] helo=[192.168.1.50]) by dancol.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_CAMELLIA_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1W4W7Z-0005la-7J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 05:39:33 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2600:3c01::f03c:91ff:fedf:adf3 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:168681 Archived-At: On Emacs trunk, I recently got into a situation where Emacs had a vsize of over 6GB. After killing all buffers, garbage-collect reported (heap 1024 82721 1933216) as the most interesting part of its on its return value. dlmalloc's free memory retention seems a bit severe here. Are we just badly fragmenting the heap? (I accidentally killed this instance of emacs with gdb before I could get anything else useful out of it.)