bug#16420:

["Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>]

Hello.

2014-01-12 18:26, Lars Andersen skrev:
> (overlays-in (point-min) (point-max)) returns what you would expect:
> #<overlay from 397 to 400 in *scratch*>
>
> This was with a slightly altered example, I removed the overly long comment as
> it took forever to draw.  100% cpu resources are used when the line is being
> drawn, and it seems to be redrawn many times before it's finally done.  Then
> all is well until something causes the line to be redrawn.
>
> I'm not sure what 'RSS' means in this context, but I assumed you wanted a
> screenshot of top:
> http://imgur.com/Rv7Z5Ly

RSS is the RES column.  Does it grow?

>
> Unfortunately emacs isn't shown here, but X always takes the blame for the
> resource use, never emacs.  I have tried interrupting whatever is going on
> with C-g after toggling debug-on-error, but I'm unable to interrupt anything
> in this manner.
>
> FWIW I cannot reproduce this bug on any other computers either.  My desktop
> computer runs an almost identical software stack but is unaffected.
>
> I will try to attach a debugger, but my computer is quite unusable after
> triggering this problem, so it may be difficult.

This sounds like an X server bug.  As Emacs is not using much CPU it isn't 
inflooping and sending lots of X requests at least.

	Jan D.