From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Memory leak?
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:09:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85r697jt5f.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20080802132039.GA6760@muc.de
Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
> Hi, Emacs,
>
> in my recent attempts to build Emacs-23, I have encountered Seg-faults
> continually. These occur when the (prototype) Emacs is byte-compiling
> the mass of Emacs lisp files.
>
> However, if I just type 'make', the build continues.
>
> My system is Debian-Sarge GNU/Linux.
>
> My first suspicion was that my swap partition was too small. So I
> terminated all competing applications, but that didn't prevent the
> problem.
>
> So I suspect there is a store leak somewhere.
A normal leak would not likely bring a byte compile session to a
standstill. It is more likely that you have run out of pure space when
dumping Emacs. When that happens, garbage collection is no longer done
at all. If you write
M-: (garbage-collect) RET
and get nil, this has happened.
Try recompiling Emacs and watch for "pure space overflow".
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-02 16:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-02 13:20 Memory leak? Alan Mackenzie
2008-08-02 16:09 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2008-08-03 1:44 ` Gilaras Drakeson
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2008-05-16 20:16 [AvataR]
2008-05-19 13:57 ` Joel J. Adamson
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