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Re: memory leak
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David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: memory leak |
Date: |
Sat, 31 May 2008 09:57:00 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
"Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:
> Dunno if this helps at all - I haven't been able to track it down.
>
> I get warnings and then emergency messages saying that Emacs is
> running out of memory, after just a few minutes of use. If I don't
> exit when I first get the emergency messages, then I end up needing to
> kill Emacs from outside.
That does not sound like a "memory leak", but the like the mother of all
memory leaks. Also known as pure space overflow.
What does
M-: (garbage-collect) RET
return? If nil, bootstrap another Emacs and watch for pure space
overflow messages.
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
Re: Memory leak, Evil Boris, 2008/05/23
Re: Memory leak, Nick Roberts, 2008/05/24
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