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bug#15156: 24.3; !MEM FULL!
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#15156: 24.3; !MEM FULL! |
Date: |
Fri, 06 Sep 2013 12:20:55 +0300 |
> From: "Sebastien Vauban" <sva-news@mygooglest.com>
> Cc: Sebastien Vauban <sva-news@mygooglest.com>, 15156@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 10:55:55 +0200
>
> > All I see in the screencast is that the memory footprint grows, then
> > shrinks back. Assuming you have something going on in Emacs that can
> > explain several hundreds of MBs of memory consumption, that's actually
> > normal: Emacs uses up memory when it needs it, then releases it when
> > it no longer does. So maybe there's no problem here at all.
>
> You take the precaution of "assuming I have something explaining several
> hundreds of MBs of memory consumption", and that's where the problem lies: I
> don't have anything that could explain that.
You are using helm, aren't you? That can explain anything at all, as
it runs subprocesses on every keystroke, AFAIR.
Anyway, putting a break at xmalloc conditioned by some large
allocation size might show who is requesting this much memory. I
don't see how this can be investigated otherwise without some
debugging.
> What's weird as well is that the memory shrinks back to a lower level -- even
> if still quite important. No apparent reason for that.
GC is normally the reason: Emacs relinquishes memory it doesn't need
anymore.
> And, anyway, I still can't use Emacs as you saw: I'm forced to kill
> Emacs from the Task Manager.
Why can't you exit Emacs "normally"? Memory full condition does not
prevent that. What happens if you try exiting?
- bug#15156: 24.3; !MEM FULL!, Sebastien Vauban, 2013/09/05
- bug#15156: 24.3; !MEM FULL!, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/09/05
- bug#15156: 24.3; !MEM FULL!, Sebastien Vauban, 2013/09/05
- bug#15156: 24.3; !MEM FULL!, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/09/05
- bug#15156: 24.3; !MEM FULL!, Sebastien Vauban, 2013/09/06
- bug#15156: 24.3; !MEM FULL!,
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- bug#15156: 24.3; !MEM FULL!, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/09/17