Re: memory usage

[Stephen Berman <Stephen.Berman@gmx.net>]

I accidentally posted the below in the wrong thread; this is the right
one.

On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:06:24 +0200 Stephen Berman <Stephen.Berman@gmx.net> wrote:

> Update: After my last post in this thread on 15 Jun 2007 I continued
> alternating between using the released Emacs 22.1 and the CVS trunk
> builds from 4/30 and 6/3.  The latter continued to show increased
> memory usage, the first two did not show this.  On 19 Jun 2007 Jason
> Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org> wrote in other thread (see
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/73303):
>
>> There was a brief period where changes in image.c caused a memory leak,
>> and on Windows a GDI resource leak (which caused crashes when the
>> resources allocated reached 9999, after 5-10 minutes of typical use for
>> me). But that was fixed more than a week ago, and was more of a problem
>> on other branches where the fix wasn't merged for until this weekend
>> just gone.
>
> On 6/30 I updated from CVS trunk to my current build, which I've used
> daily since and have not experienced increased memory usage with it.
> So I assume my build from 6/3 had the memory leak, which has since
> been fixed.
>
> Steve Berman