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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Memory leak in keyboard variables?
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:03:39 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d4fzh0qc.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (raw)

I've been looking into the memory leak that occurs when terminal frames
are killed.  From Markus Triska's recipe:

 emacs -nw -f server-start
 for i in {1..100}; do emacsclient -t -e "(save-buffers-kill-terminal)"; done 

I think at least some of this leakage is due to unfreed Lisp objects.
For instance, this code in xterm.el leads to ~ 1000 unfreed conses per
terminal created and destroyed:

   (let ((map (copy-keymap xterm-function-map)))
      ...
      (set-keymap-parent map (keymap-parent input-decode-map))
      (set-keymap-parent input-decode-map map)))

Now, input-decode-map is defined in keyboard.c, using DEFVAR_KBOARD.  It
is a Lisp_Misc_Kboard_Objfwd object, and if I'm not mistaken, such
objects are not garbage-collected.

When the terminal is killed, are its keyboard's Lisp_Misc_Kboard_Objfwd
objects freed?  As far as I can tell, they are not freed.  But I am no
expert in this part of the code, so maybe someone else can clue me in.




             reply	other threads:[~2008-12-11  3:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-11  3:03 Chong Yidong [this message]
2008-12-11  9:30 ` Memory leak in keyboard variables? Andreas Schwab
2008-12-11 15:09   ` Chong Yidong
2008-12-11 20:43     ` Chong Yidong
2008-12-13 14:19       ` Markus Triska
2008-12-13 19:09         ` Chong Yidong
2008-12-16 14:11         ` Chong Yidong
2008-12-17  4:40           ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-12-20  1:50             ` Chong Yidong
2008-12-20 15:34               ` Jan Djärv
2008-12-20 17:09                 ` Markus Triska
2008-12-20 17:45                 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-12-20 18:37                   ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-12-20 20:41                 ` Chong Yidong
2008-12-11 15:59 ` Stefan Monnier
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-12-15  1:26 Kenichi Handa
2008-12-15  3:16 ` Chong Yidong
2008-12-16  4:31   ` Kenichi Handa
2008-12-16  2:14 Chetan Pandya
2008-12-16  3:33 ` Chong Yidong

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