From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: memory grab causes machine to grind to a halt
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 05:51:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ehws7vlw.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111127205410.9A3441809DA@neo.msri.org>
> From: Silvio Levy <levy@msri.org>
> Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 12:54:10 -0800
>
> Problem: when that window dies, emacs remains alive and often -- days
> later -- it suddenly starts grabbing memory, causing the server to
> grind to a halt until the process is killed somehow.
>
> Any idea what emacs may be doing? (Note that this is always a process
> that's no longer interactive.)
When that happens next time, attach a debugger to the Emacs process,
produce a backtrace, and post to emacs-devel@gnu.org, or even report
the backtrace as a bug with "M-x report-emacs RET" (from a fresh Emacs
session).
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2011-11-27 20:54 memory grab causes machine to grind to a halt Silvio Levy
2011-11-28 3:51 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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