From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: mem leak Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 13:15:38 +0900 Message-ID: References: <854q0jk5j3.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1145852161 21086 80.91.229.2 (24 Apr 2006 04:16:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 04:16:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 24 06:15:59 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FXsUO-0005DG-J2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Apr 2006 06:15:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FXsUO-0005PB-1W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Apr 2006 00:15:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FXsUB-0005Nt-UF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Apr 2006 00:15:43 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FXsUA-0005Nh-PQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Apr 2006 00:15:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FXsUA-0005Ne-Ln for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Apr 2006 00:15:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [203.180.232.81] (helo=mgate01.necel.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FXsWH-0007cC-OP; Mon, 24 Apr 2006 00:17:54 -0400 Original-Received: from relay31.aps.necel.com (relay31 [10.29.19.54]) by mgate01.necel.com (8.13.6/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k3O3Na1M013574; Mon, 24 Apr 2006 13:15:38 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from relay11.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.24] [10.29.19.24]) by relay31.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Mon, 24 Apr 2006 13:15:38 +0900 Original-Received: from dhapc248.dev.necel.com ([10.114.97.235] [10.114.97.235]) by relay11.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Mon, 24 Apr 2006 13:15:38 +0900 Original-Received: by dhapc248.dev.necel.com (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 4E73F3E5; Mon, 24 Apr 2006 13:15:38 +0900 (JST) Original-To: David Kastrup System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: <854q0jk5j3.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Mon, 24 Apr 2006 05:37:36 +0200") Original-Lines: 22 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:53302 Archived-At: David Kastrup 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