How to track gc problem?

[Marcus Crestani]

>>>>>"ML" == Mats Lidell <matsl at xemacs.org> writes:
ML> I just got the terminal from where I started XEmacs, emacs-version
ML> "21.5 (beta26) \"endive\" (+CVS-20060507) XEmacs Lucid", filled with
ML> lines like this:
  
ML>   ...
ML>   ("(in garbage collection)" "[internal]")
ML>   ("(in garbage collection)" "[internal]")
ML>   ("(in garbage collection)" "[internal]")
ML>   ...

ML> Before that there was some text suggesting me to stop XEmacs and I
ML> think there also was some gc stuff about a barrier!?

This only makes sense if you have configured your XEmacs with
--enable-newgc.  Have you?

Then, your XEmacs probably ran out of memory.  XEmacs issues a warning
like the one you mention and tries to recover from the memory
shortage.  In your case it seems that the recovery has failed.

There is a memory leak in the incremental garbage collector.  Till now
I have not found the cause of the memory leakage, I'll keep
investigating.  On what platform did you get this crash?  Your
Installation file could be helpful to me, too.

-- 
Marcus