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bug#37006: 27.0.50; garbage collection not happening after 26de2d42
From: |
Joseph Mingrone |
Subject: |
bug#37006: 27.0.50; garbage collection not happening after 26de2d42 |
Date: |
Mon, 12 Aug 2019 11:34:18 -0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (berkeley-unix) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Joseph Mingrone <jrm@ftfl.ca>
>> Cc: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org>,
>> eggert@cs.ucla.edu
>> Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:28:11 -0300
>> > Thanks, I fixed this slightly differently, in a way that makes it more
>> > explicit why we need a non-trivial code there. Joseph, please see if
>> > the latest master fixes the problem.
>> > (IMNSHO, this issue makes INT_ADD_WRAPV and friends unsafe; at the
>> > very least this caveat should be prominently documented in Gnulib's
>> > intprops.h.)
>> I have been running 94644d8 for the past hour or so and resident
>> memory for the Emacs process is up over 1300 MB. Also with
>> `garbage-collection-messages' set to t, I do not see any messages
>> about garbage collection.
> Are you saying that the fix didn't solve the problem for you? I
> definitely saw a lot of GC messages after the fix where I didn't
> before. For example, if you visit xdisp.c from the Emacs sources and
> page through it with C-v, don't you see a lot of GC messages?
>> I should also add that after my initial report, running 26de2d42, I
>> did eventually start seeing garbage collection messages and the
>> memory usage stopped increasing. Something must have triggered
>> garbage collection to start again.
> After a lot of consing, the GC would come back for a while, until it
> would be effectively disabled again by some opportune code path.
> If you see no GC messages for a long time, attach a debugger and look
> at the value of consing_until_gc. If its value is huge, around
> LONG_MAX, the problem is still not completely solved.
The fix did not initially work for me. I tested a bit more. With
1. emacs -Q
2. (setq garbage-collection-messages t)
3. page through xdisp.c
I saw lots of garbage collection messages. But, with my init.el there
were no such messages. My init.el looked like this.
----------------------------------------------------
(setq gc-cons-threshold most-positive-fixnum)
;; contents of init.el here
(setq gc-cons-threshold 800000) ;; default value
----------------------------------------------------
When I removed the surrounding setqs, garbage collection message were
shown again when paging through xdisp.c.
I assume that temporarily setting `gc-cons-threshold' to a large number
to temporarily prevent garbage collection, then setting it back to a
reasonable value should be acceptable. Help for `gc-cons-threshold'
says
By binding this temporarily to a large number, you can effectively
prevent garbage collection during a part of the program.
--
Joseph
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- bug#37006: 27.0.50; garbage collection not happening after 26de2d42, Joseph Mingrone, 2019/08/11
- bug#37006: 27.0.50; garbage collection not happening after 26de2d42, Mattias Engdegård, 2019/08/11
- bug#37006: 27.0.50; garbage collection not happening after 26de2d42, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/08/11
- bug#37006: 27.0.50; garbage collection not happening after 26de2d42,
Joseph Mingrone <=
- bug#37006: 27.0.50; garbage collection not happening after 26de2d42, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/08/12
- bug#37006: 27.0.50; garbage collection not happening after 26de2d42, Mattias Engdegård, 2019/08/12
- bug#37006: 27.0.50; garbage collection not happening after 26de2d42, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/08/13
- bug#37006: 27.0.50; garbage collection not happening after 26de2d42, Mattias Engdegård, 2019/08/13
- bug#37006: 27.0.50; garbage collection not happening after 26de2d42, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/08/13
- bug#37006: 27.0.50; garbage collection not happening after 26de2d42, Mattias Engdegård, 2019/08/13
- bug#37006: 27.0.50; garbage collection not happening after 26de2d42, Paul Eggert, 2019/08/13
- bug#37006: 27.0.50; garbage collection not happening after 26de2d42, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/08/13
- bug#37006: 27.0.50; garbage collection not happening after 26de2d42, Paul Eggert, 2019/08/13
- bug#37006: 27.0.50; garbage collection not happening after 26de2d42, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/08/14