From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
Cc: 24013@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24013: 25.0.95; Emacs 25.x uses up all memory and needs to be killed
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2016 17:19:46 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83eg6s2vp9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8737n88mm2.fsf@Rainer.invalid> (message from Achim Gratz on Sun, 17 Jul 2016 14:39:33 +0200)
> From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
> Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2016 14:39:33 +0200
>
> To reproduce, set a mark (C-Space) somewhere in the file. Then
> extend/shrink the selection region by doing Shift-PgUp / Shift-PgDwn,
> going back and forth several times. Once you've crossed a portion of
> the file that has the "foreign" line endings, as soon as you take your
> finger off the Shift key Emacs becomes unresponsive (the cursor
> vanishes). Several seconds later it starts allocating memory in an
> apparently exponential fashion until it has exhausted both physical and
> swap, while maxing out one CPU core. The process must be killed.
>
> Trying the same recipe with Emacs 24.5 yields a short phase of
> unresponsiveness with the cursor vanished, then it returns with an error
> message "Timed out waiting for property-notify event".
That error message is related to X selections. Does the problem go
away if you disable putting the selected text into the X selections?
If it does, do you have some agent running that manages X selections?
Also, what is your value of selection-coding-system?
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-17 14:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-17 12:39 bug#24013: 25.0.95; Emacs 25.x uses up all memory and needs to be killed Achim Gratz
2016-07-17 14:19 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-07-17 14:46 ` Achim Gratz
2016-07-17 15:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-17 16:16 ` Achim Gratz
2016-07-17 16:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-17 16:43 ` Achim Gratz
2016-07-17 17:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-17 17:58 ` Achim Gratz
2016-07-17 18:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-17 18:51 ` Achim Gratz
2016-07-17 20:07 ` Stephen Berman
2016-07-18 2:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-18 18:36 ` Achim Gratz
2016-07-18 20:23 ` Stephen Berman
2016-07-18 20:47 ` Achim Gratz
2016-07-17 19:01 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-07-20 18:15 ` Achim Gratz
2016-07-21 15:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-05 13:41 ` bug#24013: bug#28146: 25.1; Timeout waiting for property notify event when select-active-regions is t Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-04 11:29 ` bug#24013: 25.0.95; [KDE/Plasma 5] Emacs 25.x uses up all memory and needs to be killed Lars Ingebrigtsen
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