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Re: Memory leak?
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Memory leak? |
Date: |
Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:09:16 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi, Emacs,
>
> in my recent attempts to build Emacs-23, I have encountered Seg-faults
> continually. These occur when the (prototype) Emacs is byte-compiling
> the mass of Emacs lisp files.
>
> However, if I just type 'make', the build continues.
>
> My system is Debian-Sarge GNU/Linux.
>
> My first suspicion was that my swap partition was too small. So I
> terminated all competing applications, but that didn't prevent the
> problem.
>
> So I suspect there is a store leak somewhere.
A normal leak would not likely bring a byte compile session to a
standstill. It is more likely that you have run out of pure space when
dumping Emacs. When that happens, garbage collection is no longer done
at all. If you write
M-: (garbage-collect) RET
and get nil, this has happened.
Try recompiling Emacs and watch for "pure space overflow".
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum