From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: (heap 1024 82721 1933216)
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 16:07:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83k3dxjsd2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52DA86DE.3000401@dancol.org>
> Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 05:51:26 -0800
> From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
> CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> On 01/18/2014 05:50 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 05:39:30 -0800
> >> From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
> >>
> >> 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?
> >
> > Buffers are not allocated off the heap, as you well know.
>
> No, but their buffer locals might be.
I find it hard to believe that buffer locals could devour gigabytes of
memory, no matter what fragmentation did we cause.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-18 14:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-18 13:39 (heap 1024 82721 1933216) Daniel Colascione
2014-01-18 13:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-18 13:51 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-01-18 14:07 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-01-18 14:12 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-01-18 17:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-18 14:15 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-18 17:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-19 2:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-19 3:31 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-01-19 4:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-19 4:24 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-01-19 14:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-19 15:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
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