Re: memory leak

[David Kastrup]

"Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:

> Dunno if this helps at all - I haven't been able to track it down.
>
> I get warnings and then emergency messages saying that Emacs is
> running out of memory, after just a few minutes of use. If I don't
> exit when I first get the emergency messages, then I end up needing to
> kill Emacs from outside.

That does not sound like a "memory leak", but the like the mother of all
memory leaks.  Also known as pure space overflow.

What does

M-: (garbage-collect) RET

return?  If nil, bootstrap another Emacs and watch for pure space
overflow messages.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum