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: Sun, 18 May 2008 13:29:46 +0200 Message-ID: <85zlqnu9xx.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87skwgg302.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87od74agfu.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> <4830126D.5080804@swipnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1211110215 5963 80.91.229.12 (18 May 2008 11:30:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 11:30:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eric Hanchrow , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dj=E4rv?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 18 13:30:53 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 1Jxh6F-0003u9-Nl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 May 2008 13:30:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53444 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jxh5V-00085T-Ss for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 May 2008 07:30:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jxh5Q-00083H-Mh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 May 2008 07:29:56 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jxh5L-0007uG-GY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 May 2008 07:29:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40803 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jxh5L-0007u1-7x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 May 2008 07:29:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-11.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.51]:53742) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jxh5K-0002Ll-SS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 May 2008 07:29:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-19-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-19-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.36]) by mail-in-11.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E586E209179; Sun, 18 May 2008 13:29:48 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-13.arcor-online.net (mail-in-13.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.53]) by mail-in-19-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C36956BD70; Sun, 18 May 2008 13:29:48 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-092-161.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.92.161]) by mail-in-13.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA89323D1E6; Sun, 18 May 2008 13:29:48 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 6A2061C464F9; Sun, 18 May 2008 13:29:46 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <4830126D.5080804@swipnet.se> ("Jan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dj=E4rv=22?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?'s?= message of "Sun, 18 May 2008 13:26:37 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.92.1/7147/Sun May 18 03:30:04 2008 on mail-in-13.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:97361 Archived-At: Jan Dj=E4rv writes: > Eric Hanchrow skrev: >> Well, here's a dumb idea: has anyone tried running Emacs under valgrind? >> I dimly recall that tool being remarkably useful for finding memory >> leaks. > > Valgrind just craches when run on Emacs. Emacs memory handling is too > much for valgrind. It is the undump think that it doesn't understand. What about running valgrind on temacs then? --=20 David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum