Youch! xemacs-beta memleaks PC to death when byte compiling
Asfand Yar Qazi writes:
Note that I have to manually kill it, or it goes into a
memory-sucking
vortex of death where all my memory is filled up and my computer is
ground to a halt until the kenel sensibly kills as many processes as
it can - unfortunately including the X server and anything running
under it.
There's known to be a leak, but it's associated with processes like
Gnus, not with building the packages AFAIK. I don't know why you see
it when building unless you have relatively small memory (256MB should
be plenty unless the machine is otherwise heavily loaded).
Since this is a use-case I haven't heard of before, I'd appreciate it
if you would file a bug report using M-x report-xemacs-bug. Don't
forget to tell us how much memory you have and how much XEmacs is
using just before you kill it, which you can get from top.
Any ideas what's causing it? Or should it be ignored, and I just
use
the latest stable version of XEmacs for my package compiling
shenanigans?
There are some improvements in the 21.5 byte-compiler that are not
100% backward compatible (which I think we should try to fix, but
nobody has gotten around to it). For this reason building packages
for distribution is best done with 21.4 anyway. (If you're not going
to distribute the packages, then it doesn't matter much.)
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