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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: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:39:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vdtetwca.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9aa0cfde0812200827u44c9d436tbacbb47d9e07901f@mail.gmail.com> (Ami Fischman's message of "Sat, 20 Dec 2008 08:27:49 -0800")

"Ami Fischman" <ami@fischman.org> writes:

> Since this thread was about debugging methods, I figured I'd add to it
> the way that I finally found the culprit:
>
> (defun ami-big-var-p (sym)
>   (when (and (boundp sym)
>              (> (length (prin1-to-string (symbol-value sym))) (* 1024 1024)))
>     t))
> (mapatoms '(lambda (sym)
>              (when (ami-big-var-p sym)
>                (message (symbol-name sym)))))
>
> This led me to the insanely large variable and from there it was just
> a matter of tracking down its construction.

Thanks.  Could you write this up into something that can go into
etc/DEBUG?




      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-20 20:39 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
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 [this message]

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