From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Memory leak? Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:09:16 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <85r697jt5f.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <20080802132039.GA6760@muc.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1217693971 3644 80.91.229.12 (2 Aug 2008 16:19:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 16:19:31 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 02 18:20:21 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KPJq8-0006XY-7j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:20:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51855 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KPJpD-0005wz-CE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:19:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KPJfl-0001lK-6P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:09:37 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KPJfj-0001kp-Ke for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:09:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50088 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KPJfj-0001kk-HR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:09:35 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:48415 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KPJfj-0005zA-Bw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:09:35 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KPJfb-00027X-FB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:09:27 +0000 Original-Received: from dslb-084-061-007-037.pools.arcor-ip.net ([84.61.7.37]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:09:27 +0000 Original-Received: from dak by dslb-084-061-007-037.pools.arcor-ip.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:09:27 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dslb-084-061-007-037.pools.arcor-ip.net X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:btkFYg5PRQxthmLIGSQIqblTlgE= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:101958 Archived-At: Alan Mackenzie 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