From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: burton@openprivacy.org (Kevin A. Burton) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Constant garbage collection in 21.2.90.1 (pretest) Date: 15 Jul 2002 22:48:45 -0700 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87ele4b4ua.fsf@openprivacy.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1026798887 30254 127.0.0.1 (16 Jul 2002 05:54:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 05:54:47 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17ULIL-0007rr-00 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 07:54:45 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17ULT8-0004zM-00 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 08:05:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17ULHs-0002a6-00; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 01:54:16 -0400 Original-Received: from dsl081-061-015.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([64.81.61.15] helo=openprivacy.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17ULGw-0002Wm-00 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 01:53:18 -0400 Original-Received: from openprivacy.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by openprivacy.org (8.12.2/8.12.2/Debian -5) with ESMTP id g6G5rHR3008820; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 22:53:17 -0700 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by openprivacy.org (8.12.2/8.12.2/Debian -5) id g6G5rDbQ008814; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 22:53:13 -0700 Original-To: Emacs Devel Mailing List Original-Lines: 56 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.2.90 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:5777 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:5777 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 For the record I think this happened in the pretest as well but I didn't understand what was going on. I was talking about my performance problems on #emacs and I was told to play with GC settings. Originally the symptoms were a Emacs session that would pause at random times (often for 30-60 seconds) and then after 2-3 days of uptime would permanently lock and fail to respond while taking 100% CPU. Right off the bat I set: (setq gc-cons-threshold (* 8192 8192)) Then my performance problems seems go go away only to resume after a few hours. I then set: (setq garbage-collection-messages t) I noticed that I was getting a lot of GC messages after this. Increasing the gc-cons-threshold just seems to postpone the problem. Could there be a memory leak somewhere? What is the best way to debug this? I looked into the Emacs gc chapter but I didn't see anything that would help. ug. Kevin - -- Kevin A. Burton ( burton@apache.org, burton@openprivacy.org, burton@peerfear.org ) Location - San Francisco, CA, Cell - 415.595.9965 Jabber - burtonator@jabber.org, Web - http://www.peerfear.org/ GPG fingerprint: 4D20 40A0 C734 307E C7B4 DCAA 0303 3AC5 BD9D 7C4D IRC - openprojects.net #infoanarchy | #p2p-hackers | #reptile Our most basic American values are threatened by an enemy opposed to everything for which our flag stands. That is why I call upon all Americans to submit to wiretaps, e-mail monitoring, and racial profiling. http://www.theonion.com/onion3736/freedoms_curtailed.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Get my public key at: http://relativity.yi.org/pgpkey.txt iD8DBQE9M7O9AwM6xb2dfE0RAtMiAKCZGs0SVjX/ez0EhMlZ+wEYj+u/+gCfWu8M Pcxtuy/xda+sni30g2Ta7kw= =lMtY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----