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bug#27498: 25.2; Memory leak in M-x shell
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npostavs |
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bug#27498: 25.2; Memory leak in M-x shell |
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Mon, 26 Jun 2017 08:01:14 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2.50 (gnu/linux) |
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Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
> Emacs leaks memory as lines are printed in a shell buffer. Here is a
> recipe:
>
> emacs -Q
> M-x shell
> yes "This should not leak, but it does."
>
> Observe the memory usage grow in a tool like “top”. Once you decide
> that Emacs has eaten enough memory, kill the shell buffer. Note that
> memory is not released.
>
> This is a problem for me because I often compile software in shell
> buffers (via “guix build”). The compilation processes often print out
> very large amounts of text and Emacs quickly eats up all memory on my
> machine, freezing it. I can only recover from this by killing Emacs
> (which is terrible, because I live in Emacs).
This is Bug#26952, it's due to using the custom "GNU version of malloc"
without the "relocating allocater" (there were several bugs with the
relocating allocater in 25.1). To fix you can configure with
REL_ALLOC=yes (this should be okay in 25.2), or use Emacs' master branch
where the standard system allocater can be used once again.