From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: clear the kill-ring and free memory? Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 00:08:28 -0400 Message-ID: References: <53036360-fe7a-4c1d-90cb-bf9f79a07982@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1379045352 25163 80.91.229.3 (13 Sep 2013 04:09:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 04:09:12 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 13 06:09:15 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VKKgx-0000Ug-5M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Sep 2013 06:09:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44659 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VKKgw-0008IT-Gv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Sep 2013 00:09:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57175) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VKKgf-0008IG-1n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Sep 2013 00:09:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VKKgW-0007mY-21 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Sep 2013 00:08:52 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:39318) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VKKgV-0007mS-RC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Sep 2013 00:08:43 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VKKgS-0008UL-FM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Sep 2013 06:08:40 +0200 Original-Received: from 184.175.16.104 ([184.175.16.104]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2013 06:08:40 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 184.175.16.104 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2013 06:08:40 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 8 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 184.175.16.104 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:NSk01xn83OtkyPo2uszFR6ZHGIY= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93373 Archived-At: > I've been having a lot of emacs (24.3.1 linux) hangs/crashes/cpu-hogging > related to too much stuff in the kill-ring. Sounds highly unlikely. What makes you think the problem is in "too much stuff in the kill-ring" rather than elsewhere? Stefan