From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: memory leak
Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 09:57:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8563suucs3.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <007e01c8c2a6$14f2b830$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Fri, 30 May 2008 15:39:54 -0700")
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> Dunno if this helps at all - I haven't been able to track it down.
>
> I get warnings and then emergency messages saying that Emacs is
> running out of memory, after just a few minutes of use. If I don't
> exit when I first get the emergency messages, then I end up needing to
> kill Emacs from outside.
That does not sound like a "memory leak", but the like the mother of all
memory leaks. Also known as pure space overflow.
What does
M-: (garbage-collect) RET
return? If nil, bootstrap another Emacs and watch for pure space
overflow messages.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-31 7:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-30 22:39 memory leak Drew Adams
2008-05-31 7:57 ` David Kastrup [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-05-24 23:02 Memory leak Nick Roberts
2008-05-15 22:50 Stefan Monnier
2008-05-15 23:06 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-16 0:25 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-05-16 8:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-05-16 9:03 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-05-16 9:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-05-16 9:29 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-05-16 9:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-05-16 9:49 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-05-16 20:13 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-05-16 20:41 ` David Robinow
2008-05-16 21:36 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-05-17 7:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-05-16 9:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-05-16 12:50 ` Jason Rumney
2008-05-19 8:05 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-05-19 8:45 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2008-05-19 11:13 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-05-19 11:59 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2008-05-23 2:24 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-05-19 13:34 ` David Hansen
2008-05-19 19:42 ` David Hansen
2008-05-16 2:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-16 0:38 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2008-05-17 15:16 ` Evil Boris
2008-05-17 19:11 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-05-17 19:17 ` Eric Hanchrow
2008-05-18 11:26 ` Jan Djärv
2008-05-18 11:29 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-20 6:46 ` Jan Djärv
2008-05-18 13:34 ` Werner LEMBERG
2008-05-20 6:48 ` Jan Djärv
2008-05-19 2:44 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-05-20 6:50 ` Jan Djärv
2008-05-21 6:10 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-05-21 17:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-23 13:54 ` Evil Boris
2006-04-28 17:51 memory leak Robert J. Chassell
2006-04-28 18:10 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-04-28 20:25 ` Robert J. Chassell
2006-04-29 1:56 ` Luc Teirlinck
2006-04-29 11:16 ` Robert J. Chassell
2006-04-29 14:06 ` Luc Teirlinck
2006-04-29 16:41 ` Robert J. Chassell
2006-04-29 17:07 ` Luc Teirlinck
2006-04-29 19:32 ` Robert J. Chassell
2006-04-30 3:03 ` Richard Stallman
2006-04-30 4:15 ` Luc Teirlinck
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