From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no>
To: 12447@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12447: 24.1.50; Stuck in garbage collection on OS X
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 23:08:19 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120914.230819.731988138196046556.hanche@math.ntnu.no> (raw)
This concerns emacs built with --with-ns from trunk on OS X.
To start with the symptom: Emacs seems to freeze, and spends a lot of
CPU time. Taking a sample with Activity monitor appears to indicate a
very deeply nested mark_object calls; from this I conclude that the
problem appears to happen in GC.
How to trigger the symptom: I always got it by trying to send an email
message with a large attachment. My mail client of choice is Mew, but
I suspect that any activity triggering garbage collection will also
trigger the bug.
After bisecting, I come to the conclusion that this revision is to
blame:
revno: 109470
committer: Jan D. <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
branch nick: trunk
timestamp: Mon 2012-08-06 18:09:02 +0200
message:
* keyboard.c (timer_check_2): Add break so timer_check returns next timeout.
That revision only adds a single line of code. I also find that the
bug disappears if I patch the current tip of trunk (revision 110013)
as follows, which undoes revision 109470:
=== modified file 'src/keyboard.c'
--- src/keyboard.c 2012-09-13 02:21:28 +0000
+++ src/keyboard.c 2012-09-14 19:12:15 +0000
@@ -4484,7 +4484,6 @@
}
nexttime = make_emacs_time (0, 0);
- break;
}
else
/* When we encounter a timer that is still waiting,
I suppose the break was added for a good reason, so this is probably
not the right thing. But it does cure the present problem.
(This bug is also discussed on the emacs-devel list, in the thread
titled "Emacs seems awfully unstable on OS X lately".)
There seems to be a second bug, introduced later, that causes crashes
(as opposed to hangs). I mention this because the second bug could
interfere with attempts to work on this one. I will endeavour to track
down the other bug as well.
- Harald
next reply other threads:[~2012-09-14 21:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-14 21:08 Harald Hanche-Olsen [this message]
2012-09-15 9:55 ` bug#12447: 24.1.50; Stuck in garbage collection on OS X Jan Djärv
2012-09-15 11:07 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2012-09-15 12:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-15 13:19 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2012-09-15 13:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-15 14:23 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2012-09-15 14:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-15 18:59 ` Jan Djärv
2012-09-16 9:15 ` Dmitry Gutov
2012-09-16 10:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-16 10:44 ` Dmitry Gutov
2012-09-16 11:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-16 12:07 ` Dmitry Gutov
2012-09-16 12:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-16 13:25 ` Dmitry Gutov
2012-09-16 13:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-16 14:25 ` Dmitry Gutov
2012-09-16 14:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-16 15:56 ` Dmitry Gutov
2012-09-18 15:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-18 17:29 ` Jan Djärv
2012-09-18 20:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-19 0:27 ` Dmitry Gutov
2012-09-19 2:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-19 7:41 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2012-09-19 15:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-19 9:54 ` Dmitry Gutov
2012-09-19 15:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-19 16:21 ` Dmitry Gutov
2012-09-19 16:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-19 18:29 ` Dmitry Gutov
2012-09-20 4:04 ` Chong Yidong
2012-09-20 16:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-21 3:31 ` Chong Yidong
2012-09-21 7:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-21 9:09 ` Chong Yidong
2012-09-21 9:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-21 14:26 ` Chong Yidong
2012-09-22 13:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-21 10:49 ` Dmitry Gutov
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