Re: Memory leak due to bidi?

[Antoine Levitt]

03/08/11 15:47, Eli Zaretskii
>> From: Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden>
>> Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 15:16:40 +0200
>> Cc: Kenichi Handa <address@hidden>
>> 
>> Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > Could you check the versions before and after my changes for
>> > char-table handling?
>> >
>> > 2011-07-07  Kenichi Handa  <address@hidden>
>> >
>> >    * character.h (unicode_category_t): New enum type.
>> >
>> >    * chartab.c (uniprop_decoder_t, uniprop_encoder_t): New types.
>> >    (Qchar_code_property_table): New variable.
>> > [...]
>> 
>> The tip revision of my Emacs is precisely the revision you mention. So
>> far no abnormal memory consumption. bidi-display-reordering is
>> nil. GNU/Linux x86_64 (Kubuntu 10.10). Daily usage of Gnus, org-mode,
>> magit, several programming modes and an assortment of minor modes. The
>> current instance is running since 6 days ago. Previously it ran since it
>> was built (07-07) for about 3 weeks. So there was plenty of opportunity
>> for showing the leak.
>
> Thanks for the info.
>
> FWIW, I'm running the version that shows "the leak" on others'
> machines for the last 10 days without exiting Emacs, and last time I
> looked it had a 195MB memory footprint.  So I suspect the leak is
> triggered by some specific usage patterns.  Or maybe I'm missing
> something important.

I couldn't find if someone tried it, so just in case, another data point
: it just happened to me with (setq-default bidi-display-reordering nil)