Re: Memory leak

[David Kastrup]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

> We have a pretty serious memory leak.
> My Emacs session recently died with a memory full situation (the
> process was around 500MB VSZ).  So I took a look around and it seem that
> every time I create a new frame, my Emacs session grows by around 10MB
> and deleting the frame does not recover this memory.
> This memory is not accounted for by the counts returned by
> `garbage-collect'.
>
> I'm not sure when this problem got introduced, tho the new font code is
> a likely culprit.

Just to rule out something obvious (pure space overflow):

M-: (garbage-collect) RET

does not return nil, does it?

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum