From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: LENNART BORGMAN Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: mem leak Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:33:17 +0200 Message-ID: <34e52d434e5685.34e568534e52d4@net.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1145865062 19988 80.91.229.2 (24 Apr 2006 07:51:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 07:51:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 24 09:50:59 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 1FXvqS-0002zy-3p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:50:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FXvqR-0004lV-F8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Apr 2006 03:50:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FXvqE-0004l8-5z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Apr 2006 03:50:42 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FXvqC-0004ks-Ao for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Apr 2006 03:50:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FXvqC-0004kp-5C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Apr 2006 03:50:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [130.235.208.46] (helo=piraten.student.lu.se) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FXvsK-0006nR-4U; Mon, 24 Apr 2006 03:52:52 -0400 Original-Received: from net.lu.se (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by piraten.student.lu.se (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) with ESMTP id <0IY70050DUBH99@piraten.student.lu.se>; Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:33:17 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from [212.209.42.132] by piraten.student.lu.se (mshttpd); Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:33:17 +0200 Original-To: Miles Bader X-Mailer: iPlanet Messenger Express 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003) Content-language: sv Content-disposition: inline X-Accept-Language: sv Priority: normal 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:53307 Archived-At: From: Miles Bader > David Kastrup writes: > > (garbage-collect) > > > > Reclaim storage for Lisp objects no longer needed. > > Garbage collection happens automatically if you cons more than > > `gc-cons-threshold' bytes of Lisp data since previous garbage > collection.... > > However, if there was overflow in pure space, `garbage-collect' > > returns nil, because real GC can't be done. > > That seems to answer my question -- when I do (garbage-collect), it > returns nil!!!!! If it's not GCing... :-O > > I guess pure space overflowed when I built emacs and I didn't notice > (even with all the recent discussion :-). What message should one look for? Does not the build fail?