From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert J. Chassell" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: memory leak Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 19:32:32 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <200604290156.k3T1uecx028681@jane.dms.auburn.edu> <200604291406.k3TE6Rhc001999@jane.dms.auburn.edu> <200604291707.k3TH7v8b002343@jane.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: bob@rattlesnake.com NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1146339185 5053 80.91.229.2 (29 Apr 2006 19:33:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 19:33:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 29 21:33:02 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FZvBY-0008Ub-8i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 21:32:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FZvBX-0002fg-OG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 15:32:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FZvBL-0002fR-Np for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 15:32:43 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FZvBK-0002et-8R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 15:32:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FZvBJ-0002eZ-V2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 15:32:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [69.168.108.225] (helo=rattlesnake.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FZvEk-0006mt-BC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 15:36:14 -0400 Original-Received: by rattlesnake.com via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.115) Sat, 29 Apr 2006 19:32:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-reply-to: <200604291707.k3TH7v8b002343@jane.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Sat, 29 Apr 2006 12:07:57 -0500 (CDT)) 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:53614 Archived-At: Is there any reason why you can not identify the culprit by running top, ordered by memory consumption, whenever the problem occurs? I guess you can also use ps if you prefer static output. That is what caused me to think first that Firefox was the culprit. My version does not appear to reuse memory properly when a page is renewed ... but that is a different issue. I got an increase when I did not have Firefox running, but did have Emacs running (that is to say, running instances of `emacs -Q -D' with no files open and my doing nothing). I got no increase when neither Firefox nor Emacs were running. That is why I became suspicious of Emacs. Anyhow, you have a good point. I am becoming less and less inclined to worry about Emacs and more inclined to think I was fooled by one of the new processes I do not know anything about. -- Robert J. Chassell bob@rattlesnake.com GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.rattlesnake.com http://www.teak.cc