From: "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>,
Markus Triska <markus.triska@gmx.at>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Memory leak in keyboard variables?
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 16:34:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <494D10A1.1000905@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ocz7pqbj.fsf@cyd.mit.edu>
Chong Yidong skrev:
> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org> writes:
>
>> Chong Yidong writes:
>> > Markus Triska <markus.triska@gmx.at> writes:
>> >
>> > > Please also try emacsclient with "-c" instead of "-t" - there seems to
>> > > be a probably different and still quite big leak there as will.
>> >
>> > With the recent fix to font_clear_cache, the leak is reduced to 30-40k
>> > per frame. This leak seems to be tied to GTK and X toolkits somehow.
>> > It does not appear when Emacs is compiled with --with-x-toolkit=no.
>>
>> The toolkits undoubtedly do their own font caching, and probably won't
>> release the space until Emacs exits.
>
> Yes, this is a possibility.
>
> Another data point: the leak occurs when the menu-bar is enabled, but
> not when the menu-bar is disabled. It's not necessary to see the leak
> using Emacsclient, as ordinary frame creating/deletion shows it:
>
> (dotimes (i 15)
> (let* ((params '((window-system . x)
> (menu-bar-lines . 1)
> (tool-bar-lines . 1)))
> frame)
> (setq frame (x-create-frame params))
> (delete-frame frame)
> (garbage-collect)))
>
> I have not been able to track down the source of this leak within Emacs.
> As far as I can tell, the existing menu-bar items allocation functions
> (in xmenu.c, menu.c, keyboard.c, and gtkutil.c) free all the memory they
> allocate, yet about 10k of memory remains unfreed with each frame
> created.
>
From what I see, the frames aren't garabge collected, and then neither is the
menu bar items in f->menu_bar_vector, which isn't used for the non-toolkit case.
The frame is at least referenced from recent-keys, and maybe one more place
which I haven't found.
Setting f->menu_bar_vector to Qnil when deleting the frame improves the
situation quite a bit, I'm not sure if it totally eliminates the leak. I've
checked in that change.
Jan D.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-20 15:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-11 3:03 Memory leak in keyboard variables? Chong Yidong
2008-12-11 9:30 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-12-11 15:09 ` Chong Yidong
2008-12-11 20:43 ` Chong Yidong
2008-12-13 14:19 ` Markus Triska
2008-12-13 19:09 ` Chong Yidong
2008-12-16 14:11 ` Chong Yidong
2008-12-17 4:40 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-12-20 1:50 ` Chong Yidong
2008-12-20 15:34 ` Jan Djärv [this message]
2008-12-20 17:09 ` Markus Triska
2008-12-20 17:45 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-12-20 18:37 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-12-20 20:41 ` Chong Yidong
2008-12-11 15:59 ` Stefan Monnier
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-12-15 1:26 Kenichi Handa
2008-12-15 3:16 ` Chong Yidong
2008-12-16 4:31 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-12-16 2:14 Chetan Pandya
2008-12-16 3:33 ` Chong Yidong
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