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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: "Ami Fischman" <ami@fischman.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how do you track down emacs memory leaks?
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:13:21 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d4hclu5q.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9aa0cfde0811012105o20c51089j1cd80d81d2895a6d@mail.gmail.com> (Ami Fischman's message of "Sat, 1 Nov 2008 21:05:13 -0700")

> CVS HEAD builds I did on 20080702, 20080810, 20080915, and 20081025
> all steadily grow in process VmRSS and VmSize to the tune of ~70-100MB
> per day when I use gnus and let it automatically check for new mail.

Does this problem only show up when you use gnus?  Could you try keeping
another Emacs session around for other non-gnus usage, and see if it
leaks memory?




  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-03 15:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-02  4:05 how do you track down emacs memory leaks? Ami Fischman
2008-11-03 15:13 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2008-11-03 15:24   ` Ami Fischman
2008-11-04 16:59     ` Chong Yidong
2008-12-20 16:27       ` Ami Fischman
2008-12-20 17:38         ` Leo
2008-12-20 20:39         ` Chong Yidong

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