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Torsten Bronger | 2 Sep 2006 11:00

Huge memory usage -- how debug?

Hallöchen!

I kept my Emacs (two or three day old CVS version) running this
night, and this morging it ate 300 MB of my memory.  I closed all
buffers, none of them being very big, but it didn't help.
Unfortunately, I had to close Emacs because it slowed down the
computer too badly.

When this occurs next time, what can I do to find the cause of this
problem?

Tschö,
Torsten.

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Reiner Steib | 2 Sep 2006 14:15

Re: Huge memory usage -- how debug?

On Sat, Sep 02 2006, Torsten Bronger wrote:

> I kept my Emacs (two or three day old CVS version) 

Please read `INSTALL.CVS':

,----[ INSTALL.CVS ]
| Questions, requests, and bug reports about the CVS versions of Emacs
| should be sent to emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org rather than gnu.emacs.help
| or gnu.emacs.bug.  Ideally, use M-x report-emacs-bug RET which will
| send it to the proper place.
`----

> running this night, and this morging it ate 300 MB of my memory.  I
> closed all buffers, none of them being very big, but it didn't help.
> Unfortunately, I had to close Emacs because it slowed down the
> computer too badly.
>
> When this occurs next time, what can I do to find the cause of this
> problem?

Maybe overflowed pure space, see `C-h v pure-space-overflow RET'.

Bye, Reiner.
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