From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "T.V. Raman" <tv.raman.tv@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Memory Usage On Emacs 24 Lucid Linux:
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:47:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvpqcft74l.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADkJX2gJis8pJz-ZEWvFrAiwind==mmQZz7sqgCrHNB=LNuV1Q@mail.gmail.com> (T. V. Raman's message of "Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:13:20 -0700")
> You were spot on --- I had HISTSIZE set to infinity.
Great.
> have an infinitely long history. It worked correctly until about
> May 2011, which is when Emacs 24 built from git/bzr started
> displaying the memory leak behavior we have been discussing.
1G entries, leads to 4GB or 8GB array, so I'd guess that before May
2011, Emacs still computed those sizes using `int' (32bit) or something
like that.
Or it's simply when shell.el started to support HISTSIZE.
> I've removed these from my shell environemnt, and Emacs 24 is
> running happily with my full Emacs environment loaded.
So the right fix might be for shell.el to allocate its history-ring
more lazily.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-14 17:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-12 20:13 Memory Usage On Emacs 24 Lucid Linux: T. V. Raman
2012-03-12 20:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-03-12 21:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-13 23:44 ` T.V. Raman
2012-03-13 23:53 ` T.V. Raman
2012-03-14 1:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-03-14 2:24 ` T.V. Raman
2012-03-14 17:13 ` T.V. Raman
2012-03-14 17:47 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-03-15 8:19 ` Chong Yidong
2012-03-12 21:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-13 3:51 ` Memory Usage On Emacs 24 Lucid what?: Richard Stallman
2012-03-13 7:19 ` Simon Leinen
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