From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Using the ImageMagick backend seems to leak memory Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 08:51:26 +0100 Message-ID: <87sjx6zczl.fsf@member.fsf.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1294300301 15302 80.91.229.12 (6 Jan 2011 07:51:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 07:51:41 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 06 08:51:38 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PakdE-0004wY-C7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2011 08:51:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54669 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PakdE-0004dC-0F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2011 02:51:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=36942 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pakd8-0004cd-Ex for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2011 02:51:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pakd7-000849-Ew for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2011 02:51:30 -0500 Original-Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:42702) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pakd7-000841-6d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2011 02:51:29 -0500 Original-Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.42]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65C13211C3 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2011 02:51:28 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 06 Jan 2011 02:51:28 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; s=smtpout; bh=PGLUDrwssV57st4x8dvZkUn9Edc=; b=Dn7g2AjQhA2FwbyK/f9oL8w9N/PtH4MpaI6m/96euD/VJf3U5KZfTVd6xkY1+OIOWrvUJYF689GbCF0LHSJAVTIqhsdy46JS8SsSKfnGT2FZuofa/F2fYqqBG0EzuV+F1qqCcBwj6x30BzwjzUyvudQHzGXjlBVMHULKLScH8rk= X-Sasl-enc: 3U3RI6EMkEqvE7Esnlr3A0C05qxOQXv2kcsgZLMAqjEy 1294300288 Original-Received: from thinkpad (95-88-32-105-dynip.superkabel.de [95.88.32.105]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id C9DA944184E for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2011 02:51:27 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:134327 Archived-At: Hi all, I just noticed that my emacs uses up more than a gigabyte memory. It is because of doc-view with ImageMagick backend. After starting my emacs, it needs ~50 MB. Firing up doc-view on a PDF and showing page one increases to ~80 MB. Switching to other pages increases about 30 MB every time. Switching to already seen pages doesn't increase the memory requirements. (I convert the docs with doc-view-resolution set to 200, so 30 MB a page might be possible.) Killing the buffer doesn't free the memory again, neither do (clear-image-cache) or (garbage-collect). So how do I reclaim that memory? Bye, Tassilo