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bug#15946: 24.3; Mac OS X, Mavericks, distnoted process
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Jan Djärv |
Subject: |
bug#15946: 24.3; Mac OS X, Mavericks, distnoted process |
Date: |
Tue, 14 Jan 2014 18:46:02 +0100 |
Hello.
14 jan 2014 kl. 18:15 skrev canoeberry <emacs@jpayne.net>:
> I have been observing this since Mavericks was released. I did not make a
> connection between distnoted and emacs, other than the following
> observation: both are leaking memory.
>
> For the first time ever I am finding that my emacs process slowly grows in
> size. I can be editing a small handful of files and be using 500Mb of real
> memory. Never seen that before, ever.
>
> Distnoted grows much faster, on the order of 1Gb real memory / day. Killing
> that process and having another start up automatically causes some OS X
> features to stop working, e.g., it is not possible to enter Time Machine or
> even see the status of your Time Machine backups anymore.
>
> I have seen distnoted peg the CPU when Time Machine backups are running or
> recently completed. Meanwhile, the menubar no longer animates the
> in-progress backup, which I assume is not on purpose and possibly even
> related to the issue.
>
I think that is so OSX can save a bit of power.
> I do not use shells in emacs nowadays.
>
> I am running emacs from emacsformacosx.
>
> I have filed bugs with Apple.
>
> If anybody has any suggestions on how to figure out what is causing Emacs to
> grow in size, I will happily run some experiments for you. I tried to figure
> out how to profile emacs memory but it was not very obvious to me what to
> do.
The obvious thing is to run leaks on Emacs (man leaks) after a garbage
collection has been made (M-x garbage-collect). Leaks may report leaks which
in fact are not due to uncollected garbage.
Jan D.
- bug#15946: 24.3; Mac OS X, Mavericks, distnoted process, Jan Djärv, 2014/01/07
- bug#15946: 24.3; Mac OS X, Mavericks, distnoted process, canoeberry, 2014/01/14
- bug#15946: 24.3; Mac OS X, Mavericks, distnoted process,
Jan Djärv <=
- bug#15946: 24.3; Mac OS X, Mavericks, distnoted process, canoeberry, 2014/01/14
- bug#15946: 24.3; Mac OS X, Mavericks, distnoted process, Jan Djärv, 2014/01/14
- bug#15946: 24.3; Mac OS X, Mavericks, distnoted process, Matthew Leach, 2014/01/14
- bug#15946: 24.3; Mac OS X, Mavericks, distnoted process, Jan D., 2014/01/15
- bug#15946: 24.3; Mac OS X, Mavericks, distnoted process, Matthew Leach, 2014/01/15
- bug#15946: 24.3; Mac OS X, Mavericks, distnoted process, canoeberry, 2014/01/14
bug#15946: 24.3; Mac OS X, Mavericks, distnoted process, Stefan Monnier, 2014/01/14
- bug#15946: 24.3; Mac OS X, Mavericks, distnoted process, canoeberry, 2014/01/14
- bug#15946: 24.3; Mac OS X, Mavericks, distnoted process, Jan Djärv, 2014/01/14
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- bug#15946: 24.3; Mac OS X, Mavericks, distnoted process, Jan Djärv, 2014/01/15