From: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Emacs development discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Memory leaks in font objects
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 19:49:20 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52694180.2070708@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvmwlylqyc.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
On 10/24/2013 06:19 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Oddly enough, I'm not sure it's a leak. Here's the result of my test:
>
> VM RSS
> initial 204 24
> after 1 522 290
> after 2 539 305
> after 3 542 308
> after 4 542 308
>
> So it's more like "once malloced, the memory can be reused by Emacs, but
> not by another process because we never return it to the OS".
IIUC no :-(. I tried the following:
initial: 32M RSS
then M-x bloat-font, M-x set-frame-font "fixed", M-x garbage-collect: 372M
then M-x byte-force-recompile [all lisp/ subdir], M-x garbage-collect: 437M
If 372M is (mostly) free but just too fragmented to release, byte-force-recompile
should reuse a lot of memory - so why +65M? But, 2nd run of bloat-font do not add
too much. Why? Consider XLoadQueryFont example. When you do not call XFreeFont but
just lost XFontStruct pointer, the font is still allocated by Xlib. Since you lost
the pointer, you can't use this font unless you call XLoadQueryFont for the same
font again and got the pointer to previously allocated resource (assuming that you
do not lost the connection to X display). So 2nd, 3rd, etc. calls to bloat-font
will just re-use font resources you lost before. But, if you need to allocate
something else, you will need more memory.
> What the difference between "close" and "finalize"?
Nothing except "close" is a part of existing interface which I don't want
to change (at this moment at least), and requires extra frame argument.
Dmitry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-24 15:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-24 6:31 Memory leaks in font objects Dmitry Antipov
2013-10-24 14:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-24 15:49 ` Dmitry Antipov [this message]
2013-10-25 0:41 ` Stefan Monnier
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