bug#9221: Memory leak

[Antoine Levitt]

05/08/11 00:14, Andy Moreton
>> On Wed 03 Aug 2011, Andy Moreton wrote:
>> I've tried building revs 105207 and 105208, each bootstrapped after
>> 'make clean'.
>>
>> While I can't be entirely sure, revision 105207 seems to behave
>> itself even after using gnus for a while.
>>
>> Revision 105208 seems to show growing memory usage, but nothing like as
>> fast as I observed before a full rebuild. After running for a few hours
>> memory usage seems to have stabilised at approx 93MB, and I'm not
>> seeing the > 1GB runaway consumption from before.
>>
>> I'll keep trying with newer builds to see if I can find anything that
>> produces the excessive memory usage again.
>
> I've been trying to bisect this, but it seems to take a while using
> emacs before the excessive memory consumption appears, so the test cycle
> is a little slow.

You can use Eli's patch (on emacs-devel) to print
bidi_cache_total_alloc, that's faster.

>
> The problems seems to appear somewhere between r105368 (good) and
> r105375 (bad).
>
> I'll keep looking at this to make sure I can get consistent results.
>
>     AndyM

Is word-wrap t? If yes, does the problem go away when turning it off?