Since 2006-10-28, someone has broken `Face-frob-property'

[Nix]

On 19 Dec 2006, Stephen J. Turnbull spake thusly:

> Nix writes:
>
>  > Ar an t-ochtú lá déag de mí na Nollaig, scríobh Stephen J. Turnbull: 
>
>  > > The reported memory doesn't seem unreasonable; Gnus conses like it's
>  > > going out of style.
>
>  > The bloat does not stop, though.
>
> I know, I'm saying the memory usage *reported by XEmacs* seems
> reasonable.  The bloat is not accounted for by objects we count, not
> even as a proportion, right?

Indeed not: `object-memory-usage-stats' reports sane values. The problem
is the actual amount of memory allocated (which is all, or nearly all,
traversed by the garbage collector: RSS goes up just as fast as VSZ.)

... hm. I just remembered Ulrich Drepper and Wolfram Gloger mentioning
(I think on libc-alpha a while back but it may have been in some paper
somewhere) that the glibc malloc hooks are pretty much completely broken
and don't work properly, especially in glibc 2.4+: as far as I can tell
we don't rely on those hooks except when terminating (to a very limited
degree) and as a debugging hack with no effect on memory-allocation
semantics, right?

(if so, damn, I'll have to actually do some *work* to diagnose this
rather than leaping directly to the solution by magic. :) )

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