From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Subject: Debugging memory leaks/stale references
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 19:38:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d60fjzdg.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
I've decided that it's time to track down an annoying bug in Gnus (or
Emacs). The symptom is that memory-limit keeps growing and growing,
but the data segment size (as allocated from the operating system)
remains approximately constant. In my case, this behavior is exposed
mainly when entering large NNTP groups with Gnus.
Is it possible to dump all reachable Lisp objects to a file, in the
format that is returned by princ? I could run diff(1) on two versions
of the file, and this might reveal which objects are leaking (or held
by stale references). garbage-collect output alone is not very
helpful.
(I'm going to test CVS Emacs soon, just to be sure that the behavior
is still the same. It's probably a Gnus bug, but you never know.)
next reply other threads:[~2004-09-21 17:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-21 17:38 Florian Weimer [this message]
2004-09-21 19:49 ` Debugging memory leaks/stale references Simon Josefsson
2004-09-27 19:40 ` Florian Weimer
2004-09-27 19:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-09-27 20:36 ` Florian Weimer
2004-09-27 20:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-09-27 20:48 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-09-28 15:20 ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-28 21:00 ` Florian Weimer
2004-09-28 21:51 ` Florian Weimer
2004-09-29 16:39 ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-29 23:51 ` Kenichi Handa
2004-09-28 21:40 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-09-21 19:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-09-21 21:01 ` Florian Weimer
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