Re: reproducible memory problem and crashes on cygwin

[Kim F. Storm]

Jason Rumney <address@hidden> writes:

> emacs user wrote:
>> an example:
>>
>> before editing the image: 33Mb
>> during: 39Mb
>> after killing the buffer: 39Mb
>> image file is 186263 bytes large (jpeg)
>
> Emacs needs to decompress your jpeg image to display it, and rather
> than do that every time it gets displayed, it caches the decompressed
> image for image-cache-eviction-delay seconds after it was last
> displayed. By default, image-cache-eviction-delay is 1800, so what
> happens to the memory usage if you leave Emacs for half an hour?

Or try this:

M-: (clear-image-cache t) RET


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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk