From: Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: mem leak
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 13:15:38 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <buoodyrhamt.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <854q0jk5j3.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Mon, 24 Apr 2006 05:37:36 +0200")
David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
> (garbage-collect)
>
> Reclaim storage for Lisp objects no longer needed.
> Garbage collection happens automatically if you cons more than
> `gc-cons-threshold' bytes of Lisp data since previous garbage collection.
...
> However, if there was overflow in pure space, `garbage-collect'
> returns nil, because real GC can't be done.
That seems to answer my question -- when I do (garbage-collect), it
returns nil!!!!! If it's not GCing... :-O
I guess pure space overflowed when I built emacs and I didn't notice
(even with all the recent discussion :-).
Thanks,
-Miles
--
"Most attacks seem to take place at night, during a rainstorm, uphill,
where four map sheets join." -- Anon. British Officer in WW I
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-24 3:31 mem leak Miles Bader
2006-04-24 3:37 ` David Kastrup
2006-04-24 4:15 ` Miles Bader [this message]
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2006-04-24 7:33 LENNART BORGMAN
2006-04-24 8:01 ` Miles Bader
2006-04-24 8:18 ` Romain Francoise
2006-04-24 8:26 ` Miles Bader
2006-04-24 8:39 ` Miles Bader
2006-04-24 12:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-24 14:44 ` Miles Bader
2006-04-24 17:52 ` Richard Stallman
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