Re: 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.