bug#9221: Memory leak

[Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>]

On Wed 03 Aug 2011, Andy Moreton wrote:

> On Wed 03 Aug 2011, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>>> From: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>
>>> Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:53:55 +0100
>>> 
>>> Yes. My w32 buildon WinXP also shows ever-growing memory consumption.
>>> The growth rate is slower if I add:
>>> 
>>> (setq-default bidi-display-reordering nil)
>>
>> Do you use Gnus?
>>
>>> I haven't biesected this yet, but I can do so if it helps.
>>
>> It will help, yes.  My prime suspect is revision 105208.
>
> Thanks for the hint - I'll try rev 105207 first :-)
>
>     AndyM

I've tried building revs 105207 and 105208, each bootstrapped after
'make clean'.

While I can't be entirely sure, revision 105207 seems to behave
itself even after using gnus for a while.

Revision 105208 seems to show growing memory usage, but nothing like as
fast as I observed before a full rebuild. After running for a few hours
memory usage seems to have stabilised at approx 93MB, and I'm not
seeing the > 1GB runaway consumption from before.

I'll keep trying with newer builds to see if I can find anything that
produces the excessive memory usage again.

    AndyM