Re: Memory again

[emacs user <user.emacs@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 4:58 PM, emacs user <user.emacs@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> wrote:
>>
>> 21 dec 2011 kl. 18:55 skrev emacs user:
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks...  The leaks command indeed reports zero leaks now.  however,
>>> emacs still grows every time I invoke vm.  here is a memory report
>>> which I get after killing all buffers, when emacs is 214 Mb large (as
>>> seen in the Activity Monitor).   is this normal?
>>>
>>
>> As I'm not a vm-user I can't really say.  But it sounds like something is not released back to the OS.
>>
>>        Jan D.
>
> how does one go about diagnosing this?  is it possible to tell if this
> an elisp problem or a c-problem?

Just in case this is helpful in diagnosing this:
 - The problem (rapidly growing memory and eventual crash) occurs also
with emacs -nw on mac os x.
 - I tested, and as far as I can tell, this does not occur under GNU/Linux


>>> Garbage collection stats:
>>> ((400287 . 303593) (45615 . 144) (60632 . 80546) 2488080 600138 (708 .
>>> 477) (521 . 271) (85624 . 67826))
>>>
>>> =>    6404592+4857488 bytes in cons cells
>>>       2189520+6912 bytes in symbols
>>>       2425280+3221840 bytes in markers
>>>       11328+7632 bytes in floats
>>>       29176+15176 bytes in intervals
>>>       2739968+2170432 bytes in string headers
>>>       2488080 bytes of string chars
>>>       2488080 bytes of vector slots
>>>
>>> Total bytes in lisp objects: 27167562 (live 16888082, dead 10279480)
>>>
>>> Buffer ralloc memory usage:
>>> 14 buffers
>>> 29463 bytes total (24346 in gaps)
>>>      Size     Gap     Name
>>>
>>>      2186     987      *srecode-map-tmp*
>>>      2186     1814     *code-converting-work*
>>>       565     1570    *Buffer Details*
>>>       170     1851     *Deletions*
>>>        30     2000    *Messages*
>>>        25     2019     *extract address components*
>>>        22     2022     *canonical address*
>>>        16     5812     *code-conversion-work*
>>>        11     2040     *Echo Area 1*
>>>         0     2022     *Minibuf-1*
>>>         0     20       *vm-nonexistent-summary*
>>>         0     20       *Minibuf-0*
>>>         0     2055     *Echo Area 0*
>>>         0     20       *subst-char-in-string*
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