Re: Enormous memory leak
Darryl Okahata <darrylo(a)sr.hp.com> writes:
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Andy Piper <andyp(a)parallax.co.uk> wrote:
> I think this is probably cygwin related. I am seeing my XEmacs process grow
> to be huge - 50Mb with no buffers open.
Well, some time back, I ran purify on "Erzgeberg-pre1", and purify
complained about numerous (and large!) memory leaks. However, I haven't
had the time to verify that these really are memory leaks (as purify is
being run on temacs, and not the dumped xemacs). I've attached a few
instances of the larger memory leaks; perhaps someone could look into
them.
Thanks, I've fixed the png one now. The others look like GC stuff I
don't understand.
Note that this was under HP-UX 10.20, and not under cygwin.
These
memory leaks, if real, probably exist on most (all?) platforms.
I think there is a fundamental problem under cygwin (maybe native as
well?) that means that no lisp storage gets returned to the system.
andy
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