From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dmitry Antipov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Memory again Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:32:34 +0400 Message-ID: <4EF01DF2.6030000@yandex.ru> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1324359137 14315 80.91.229.12 (20 Dec 2011 05:32:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:32:17 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 20 06:32:11 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RcsJ8-0000Jq-QW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 06:32:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45038 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RcsJ8-0004GS-3F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:32:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:60280) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RcsJ4-0004Ft-Jo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:32:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RcsJ0-0004AY-Oq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:32:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.dev.rtsoft.ru ([213.79.90.226]:60771) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RcsJ0-000470-6R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:32:02 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 31914 invoked from network); 20 Dec 2011 05:31:58 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.5.146?) (192.168.1.70) by 0 with SMTP; 20 Dec 2011 05:31:58 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111115 Thunderbird/8.0 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-Received-From: 213.79.90.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:146866 Archived-At: On 12/19/2011 11:51 PM, emacs user wrote: > For whatever it's worth, I need to kill my emacs (GNU Emacs 24.0.92.1 > x86_64-apple-darwin11.2.0, NS apple-appkit-1138.23) several times a > day when it reached over 300mb or it will crash. This memory usage is > *after* I kill all buffers and do M-x garbage collect. I submitted a > couple of bug reports, please see > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2011-12/msg00404.html > am happy to do additional tests if anyone could guide me. I'm not an expert in Apple world, but the first step looks almost obvious - can you try to use 'leaks' (for example, see http://shorestreet.com/node/4) and see whether it shows something useful? Dmitry