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Re: Memory again
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Ted Zlatanov |
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Re: Memory again |
Date: |
Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:19:53 -0600 |
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Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) |
On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:49:37 +0000 Nix <address@hidden> wrote:
N> On 19 Dec 2011, Stefan Monnier outgrape:
>>>> I agree that we're probably going to see better overall results by
>>>> improving general memory use than by trying to attack
>>>> fragmentation problems.
>>> Among this list's subscribers, Nix <address@hidden> is constantly
>>> reporting an enormous memory usage caused by Gnus.
>>
>> I think we still have a leak there somewhere.
N> Confirmed. With Dmitry's immediate-string patch (which works perfectly
N> otherwise):
N> RSS VSZ USER STIME
N> 720696 1008752 gnus Jan07
N> 242740 525592 hacking 2011
N> Despite running for less than half the time, the Gnus Emacs is twice the
N> size. It bloats more slowly than without Dmitry's patch, but it still
N> bloats.
N> I suspect that the only way I'll be able to provide a reproducible
N> recipe for this is to instrument Emacs to record all allocations and GCs
N> and when they happen, so that someone else can play this back to observe
N> WTF is going on. Doing this compactly enough to run over weeks without
N> serving as a DoS-attack on my own system may be... interesting. I
N> haven't done any work toward this yet though.
Some valgrind recipes were posted that may help. Can you try them?
I could not put together a test case to cause memory bloat with GnuTLS
usage alone. Do you want to try that? If such a test case can be shown
to cause bloat without Gnus, we'll know where to look.
Ted
- Re: Memory again, (continued)
- Re: Memory again, Nix, 2012/01/23
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