From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#33275: 27.0.50; Image cache pruning Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2018 21:24:42 +0200 Message-ID: <83in1bcop1.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83va5bcxxu.fsf@gnu.org> <83sh0fcx2r.fsf@gnu.org> <83o9b3cu4f.fsf@gnu.org> <83lg67crrq.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1541445851 8301 195.159.176.226 (5 Nov 2018 19:24:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 19:24:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 33275@debbugs.gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 05 20:24:07 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gJkTm-000212-OL for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Nov 2018 20:24:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37267 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gJkVt-0006YD-58 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Nov 2018 14:26:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58619) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gJkVj-0006Y5-4X for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Nov 2018 14:26:11 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gJkVe-0006zE-3M for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Nov 2018 14:26:07 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:59610) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gJkVd-0006zA-Vf for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Nov 2018 14:26:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gJkVd-0000sJ-Rb for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Nov 2018 14:26:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2018 19:26:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 33275 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 33275-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B33275.15414459083301 (code B ref 33275); Mon, 05 Nov 2018 19:26:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 33275) by debbugs.gnu.org; 5 Nov 2018 19:25:08 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35635 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gJkUj-0000r5-0d for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 05 Nov 2018 14:25:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:48610) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gJkUe-0000qS-2L for 33275@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 05 Nov 2018 14:25:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gJkUQ-0002bZ-U2 for 33275@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 05 Nov 2018 14:24:53 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:34047) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gJkUQ-0002bU-Pl; Mon, 05 Nov 2018 14:24:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2142 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gJkUQ-0008Ru-CO; Mon, 05 Nov 2018 14:24:46 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Mon, 05 Nov 2018 20:06:41 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:152078 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > Cc: 33275@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2018 20:06:41 +0100 > > In general, if you don't have a reference to an object, you can be > pretty sure that Emacs is going to garbage-collect it. Of course. But you cannot control when that GC will happen. > > That it doesn't is just sheer luck: the way we manage buffer memory is > > special. With any other Lisp object, it could well grow > > uncontrollably. > > What other non-referenced Lisp object can realistically make Emacs grow > in this way? Theoretically, anything. In practice, I've seen such situations with fonts.