[Bug: 21.5-b27] Still a huge leak in XEmacs-21.5.27-latest-CVS's newgc

[Adrian Aichner]

Nix <nix at esperi.org.uk> writes:

> On 25 Oct 2006, nix at esperi.org.uk told this:
>> Wow! Open gc.c, and, pop! 800Mb RSS.
>
> ... and, no, opening gc.c does not always add 200Mb to the memory usage.
>
> (Mind you it's crept up by 150Mb in the last hour:
>
> nix at hades 309 /home/nix% ps -o rss,vsz,args -C xemacs
>   RSS    VSZ COMMAND
> 178840 226132 xemacs
>
> The RSS and VSZ basically never go down.)
>
> This is #3 on my list of XEmacs bugs to squash, so don't worry: if you
> don't get to it, I will.

Hi Nix, I found gc variable settings to make a big difference.

Especially increasing the gc.*incremental variables helps a lot, which
suggests major problems especially in gc-incremental.

Just guesses by now.

Thanks for looking into this, Nix!

Marcus, do you still hang out here?

Adrian

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