Youch! xemacs-beta memleaks PC to death when byte compiling

[Asfand Yar Qazi]

On 2/18/07, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
> Asfand Yar Qazi writes:
>
>  > Note that I have to manually kill it, or it goes into a memory-sucking
>  > vortex of death where all my memory is filled up and my computer is
>  > ground to a halt until the kenel sensibly kills as many processes as
>  > it can - unfortunately including the X server and anything running
>  > under it.
>
> There's known to be a leak, but it's associated with processes like
> Gnus, not with building the packages AFAIK.  I don't know why you see
> it when building unless you have relatively small memory (256MB should
> be plenty unless the machine is otherwise heavily loaded).

I have 2GB of RAM, so I'm sure lack of memory can't be the problem.

>
> Since this is a use-case I haven't heard of before, I'd appreciate it
> if you would file a bug report using M-x report-xemacs-bug.  Don't
> forget to tell us how much memory you have and how much XEmacs is
> using just before you kill it, which you can get from top.

If I don't kill it early, it gobbles up all of the RAM, and I either
have to reboot or wait for the kernel to kill it.