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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs bzr memory footprint
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:47:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83zkgla1mg.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y5w531eo.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>

> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:34:23 +0900
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> Eli Zaretskii writes:
> 
>  > Alas, I think Emacs will not run under valgrind.
> 
> XEmacs does (at least some versions have done so ;-) so it's not
> impossible in principle AFAIK.

Nothing is impossible in principle: this is software.  It just could
be impractical or extremely hard.

One of the problems is dumping, and that of XEmacs uses an entirely
different method AFAIK.  Maybe people should try running temacs
instead.

> Maybe valgrind technology has improved since you last tried, or
> maybe it only works on particular architectures, but I'm pretty sure
> a couple of people were able to valgrind XEmacs.

It definitely is worth trying again every now and then, yes.

If someone succeeds, please add the necessary know-how to etc/DEBUG.



  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-28  9:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 113+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-13  9:24 Emacs bzr memory footprint Carsten Mattner
2011-10-13 10:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-13 10:33   ` Andreas Schwab
2011-10-13 10:46     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-13 13:08       ` Carsten Mattner
2011-10-13 13:38         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-13 15:22           ` Miles Bader
2011-10-13 15:30             ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-13 16:16               ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-13 17:33                 ` Dmitry Antipov
2011-10-13 18:42                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-14  3:09                     ` Dmitry Antipov
2011-10-13 16:46             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-13 16:59               ` Carsten Mattner
2011-10-13 13:13   ` Carsten Mattner
2011-10-13 13:43     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-13 14:10       ` Dave Abrahams
2011-10-13 14:46         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-13 15:05           ` Dave Abrahams
2011-10-13 14:22       ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-13 16:55         ` Carsten Mattner
2011-10-13 17:09           ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-14 12:11             ` Carsten Mattner
2011-10-14 21:02             ` John Wiegley
2011-10-15  1:22               ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-13 17:22           ` Richard Riley
2011-10-13 16:12       ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-13 20:18     ` chad
2011-10-14 12:13       ` Carsten Mattner
2011-10-14 12:18         ` Carsten Mattner
2011-10-14 15:49           ` Sven Joachim
2011-10-14 16:30             ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-10-14 16:48               ` Sven Joachim
2011-10-14 17:16                 ` Carsten Mattner
2011-10-15 18:12                 ` Sven Joachim
2011-10-20 13:35                 ` Nix
2011-10-20 23:02                   ` John Wiegley
2011-10-21  0:19                     ` Nix
2011-10-21  8:19                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-21 12:05                         ` Nix
2011-10-21 12:36                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-21 12:47                             ` Nix
2011-10-21 14:30                               ` Dmitry Antipov
2011-10-21 15:22                                 ` Nix
2011-10-21 18:29                                   ` Dmitry Antipov
2011-10-21 18:36                                     ` Nix
2011-10-21 13:30                       ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-21 15:02                         ` Nix
2011-10-21 17:52                           ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-21 19:12                             ` Nix
2011-10-21 15:34                         ` Dmitry Antipov
2011-10-21 18:00                           ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-21 18:27                             ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-21 18:58                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-21 19:11                               ` Nix
2011-10-21 20:18                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-21 20:21                                   ` Nix
2011-10-22  7:34                             ` Carsten Mattner
2011-10-22  8:30                               ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-22 12:03                                 ` Carsten Mattner
2011-10-22 16:08                                   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-27 22:10                                     ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-10-28  6:40                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-28  9:34                                         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-28  9:47                                           ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-10-28 10:22                                             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-28 10:36                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-28 11:52                                                 ` valgrind warnings [Re: Emacs bzr memory footprint] Dan Nicolaescu
2011-10-28 14:08                                                   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-28 14:38                                                   ` Dan Nicolaescu
2011-10-28 15:17                                                     ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-28 15:35                                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-28 15:27                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-28 16:34                                                       ` Dan Nicolaescu
2011-10-28 18:36                                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-28 18:51                                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-28 18:52                                                           ` Dan Nicolaescu
2011-10-28 19:03                                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-28 15:08                                                   ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-12-04 21:11                                                     ` Florian Weimer
2011-10-28 20:20                                                   ` Dan Nicolaescu
2011-10-29  3:40                                                     ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-29  7:04                                                       ` Andreas Schwab
2011-10-29 16:25                                                         ` Stefan Monnier
2011-11-04 12:51                                                           ` Dan Nicolaescu
2011-11-04 13:08                                                             ` Andreas Schwab
2011-11-04 15:50                                                             ` valgrind warnings Paul Eggert
2011-11-04 17:37                                                             ` valgrind warnings [Re: Emacs bzr memory footprint] Stefan Monnier
2011-11-04 19:10                                                               ` Dan Nicolaescu
2011-11-04 20:56                                                                 ` Paul Eggert
2011-11-05 22:08                                                                   ` Dan Nicolaescu
2011-11-06  2:34                                                                     ` Paul Eggert
2011-11-06 12:37                                                                       ` Dan Nicolaescu
2011-11-07  1:13                                                                         ` Paul Eggert
2011-10-29  9:10                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-22  8:44                               ` Emacs bzr memory footprint Sven Joachim
2011-10-22 11:57                                 ` Carsten Mattner
2011-10-23 18:04                               ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-25 17:35                         ` Nix
2011-10-25 20:23                           ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-25 20:34                             ` Nix
2011-10-26 14:52                             ` gnutls memory leak [Was: Re: Emacs bzr memory footprint] Chong Yidong
2011-10-27  6:10                               ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-27 22:01                                 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-10-28 12:04                                   ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-10-28 17:29                                     ` Nix
2011-10-27 22:03                               ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-10-13 21:23 ` Emacs bzr memory footprint Dan Nicolaescu
2011-10-14 13:04 ` Carsten Mattner
2011-10-14 18:13 ` James Cloos
2011-10-17 20:52   ` Juri Linkov
2011-10-17 23:34     ` James Cloos
2011-10-18  7:24       ` Andreas Schwab

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