From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Leo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: how do you track down emacs memory leaks? Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:38:36 +0000 Organization: University of Cambridge Message-ID: References: <9aa0cfde0811012105o20c51089j1cd80d81d2895a6d@mail.gmail.com> <87d4hclu5q.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> <9aa0cfde0811030724s2ee667e2l59cc94a97e4fc1f@mail.gmail.com> <87k5bjfmvz.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> <9aa0cfde0812200827u44c9d436tbacbb47d9e07901f@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1229794746 23073 80.91.229.12 (20 Dec 2008 17:39:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:39:06 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 20 18:40:13 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LE5o8-0008CJ-N3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 18:40:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37269 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LE5mv-0006c6-Tz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 12:38:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LE5mq-0006c1-Ok for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 12:38:48 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LE5mn-0006bp-Hi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 12:38:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54479 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LE5mn-0006bm-Dp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 12:38:45 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:33748 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LE5mm-0007ML-Ur for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 12:38:45 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LE5ml-0002WA-Fi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:38:43 +0000 Original-Received: from smaug.linux.pwf.cam.ac.uk ([193.60.95.72]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:38:43 +0000 Original-Received: from sdl.web by smaug.linux.pwf.cam.ac.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:38:43 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: smaug.linux.pwf.cam.ac.uk User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:YTW1PMnFnZyoyv49Tc/9bN9lOtU= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:107128 Archived-At: On 2008-12-20 16:27 +0000, Ami Fischman wrote: > This leak ended up being caused by the bug I reported last night > (mode-line-eol-desc-cache being grown indefinitely). Gnus was not the > cause but rather the trigger, since it visits so many files (using > nnml backend) and visiting files was a prime way to tickle the > mode-line-eol-desc-cache bug. Thank you for finding the bug. It helped my long running Emacs too. -- .: Leo :. [ sdl.web AT gmail.com ] .: I use Emacs :.