Emacs and nxml/nxhtml-mode: memory overflow

[Martin Butz <mb@mkblog.org>]

Hi,

since a few weeks I have some serious problem, while using emacs for 
webdevelopement. I use (and would like to in future) nxhtml-mode. It 
seems that this mode (or the underlying nxml-mode) causes emacs to 
consume 100 % cpu-power - at least after a while. I can not spotify the 
exact reason for this; in some cases it seem to be caused be validation. 
Emacs says MEM FULL! (mode line), freezes and there's no other way as to 
kill the process.

I setup a separate .emacs-webdev to use emacs for webdevelopement 
without allmost any of my extensions/configuration, which I usually use. 
This did work for a while, but as I had a crash today, it seems, that it 
can happen anytime.

There might be some side effects concerning one or the other extension 
but I have no clue how I can find out whats going on. It could also be 
caused by some bug in nxhml/nxhtml-mode but I can not find any 
information on the web, which seems to backup this.

I already filed a bug report at launchpad (which admittedly is based on 
a very poor information base, as I do not know how to securely reproduce 
the misbehaviour); also my posting at stackoverflow [2] was not crowned 
with success.

Currently I use emacs 23.2.1 on Linux Mint 11. The last version of 
nxml-mode I used is 20041004.

Any tips about that? How can I possibly find out, what emacs causes to 
do that?

Greetings
Martin

[1] <https://bugs.launchpad.net/nxhtml/+bug/1032564>
[2] 
<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11247666/emacs-nxhtml-mode-memory-full>
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