From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Memory again
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:19:53 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87obtrhhzq.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87vco2cqji.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix
On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:49:37 +0000 Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk> wrote:
N> On 19 Dec 2011, Stefan Monnier outgrape:
>>>> I agree that we're probably going to see better overall results by
>>>> improving general memory use than by trying to attack
>>>> fragmentation problems.
>>> Among this list's subscribers, Nix <nix@[hidden]> is constantly
>>> reporting an enormous memory usage caused by Gnus.
>>
>> I think we still have a leak there somewhere.
N> Confirmed. With Dmitry's immediate-string patch (which works perfectly
N> otherwise):
N> RSS VSZ USER STIME
N> 720696 1008752 gnus Jan07
N> 242740 525592 hacking 2011
N> Despite running for less than half the time, the Gnus Emacs is twice the
N> size. It bloats more slowly than without Dmitry's patch, but it still
N> bloats.
N> I suspect that the only way I'll be able to provide a reproducible
N> recipe for this is to instrument Emacs to record all allocations and GCs
N> and when they happen, so that someone else can play this back to observe
N> WTF is going on. Doing this compactly enough to run over weeks without
N> serving as a DoS-attack on my own system may be... interesting. I
N> haven't done any work toward this yet though.
Some valgrind recipes were posted that may help. Can you try them?
I could not put together a test case to cause memory bloat with GnuTLS
usage alone. Do you want to try that? If such a test case can be shown
to cause bloat without Gnus, we'll know where to look.
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-25 16:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 87+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-26 13:26 Memory again Carsten Mattner
2011-11-26 13:28 ` Carsten Mattner
2011-11-26 14:35 ` Dmitry Antipov
2011-11-26 14:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-26 17:37 ` Dmitry Antipov
2011-11-26 20:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-26 14:58 ` Carsten Mattner
2011-11-26 16:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-26 19:02 ` Carsten Mattner
2011-11-26 20:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-26 21:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-27 10:29 ` Carsten Mattner
2011-11-27 10:43 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-11-27 13:53 ` Carsten Mattner
2011-11-27 13:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-27 13:53 ` Carsten Mattner
2011-11-27 16:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-27 17:37 ` Carsten Mattner
2011-11-27 17:59 ` Carsten Mattner
2011-12-06 4:02 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-12-06 5:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-06 9:35 ` Carsten Mattner
2011-12-06 10:24 ` Dmitry Antipov
2011-12-06 13:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-06 13:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-12-06 17:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-06 20:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-12-07 7:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-07 8:15 ` Dmitry Antipov
2011-12-07 13:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-07 14:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-12-08 17:30 ` Carsten Mattner
2011-12-09 3:39 ` Dmitry Antipov
2011-12-09 13:52 ` Carsten Mattner
2011-12-06 13:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-06 16:28 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-12-06 19:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-12-11 17:49 ` Nix
2011-12-15 3:52 ` Tim Connors
2011-12-15 4:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-15 4:38 ` Tim Connors
2011-12-15 5:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-15 4:50 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-12-15 6:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-16 21:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-12-17 17:40 ` Nix
2011-12-18 15:13 ` Dmitry Antipov
2011-12-19 1:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-12-19 8:28 ` Dmitry Antipov
2011-12-19 11:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-01-23 16:49 ` Nix
2012-01-25 16:19 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2011-11-26 17:54 ` Dmitry Antipov
2011-11-26 18:47 ` martin rudalics
2011-11-26 19:09 ` Carsten Mattner
2011-11-28 4:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-11-28 9:24 ` Carsten Mattner
2011-11-28 15:31 ` Davis Herring
2011-11-28 21:33 ` Carsten Mattner
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-12-19 19:51 emacs user
2011-12-20 5:32 ` Dmitry Antipov
2012-01-06 14:28 ` Chong Yidong
2012-01-06 15:53 ` emacs user
2011-12-20 6:34 emacs user
2011-12-20 7:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-20 12:05 ` emacs user
2011-12-20 13:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-20 22:07 ` Jan Djärv
2011-12-21 8:07 ` Jan Djärv
2011-12-21 10:39 ` Carsten Mattner
2011-12-21 17:55 ` emacs user
2011-12-22 14:08 ` Jan Djärv
2011-12-22 14:58 ` emacs user
2011-12-22 18:54 ` emacs user
2011-12-22 19:15 ` Jan Djärv
2011-12-23 4:41 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2012-01-17 10:04 ` emacs user
2012-01-17 10:58 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2012-01-17 13:14 ` emacs user
2012-01-18 1:30 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2011-12-22 23:09 ` Carsten Mattner
2011-12-23 0:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-12-23 10:44 ` emacs user
2012-01-05 6:13 ` emacs user
2012-01-05 22:37 ` Jan Djärv
2012-01-06 9:58 ` emacs user
2012-01-06 11:10 ` Carsten Mattner
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