GNU bug report logs - #20220
severe memory leak on emacs 24.4.1

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From: Mario Valencia <mariovalspi <at> gmail.com>
To: Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org>
Cc: 20220 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20220: severe memory leak on emacs 24.4.1
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 00:04:51 -0600

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I have no idea my friend. How can I check?

2015-03-29 0:01 GMT-06:00 Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org>:

> On 03/28/2015 04:39 PM, Mario Valencia wrote:
> > to reproduce it, i create a small emtpy html document. then i evaluate
> > the following expression:
> >
> > (dotimes (i 100) (browse-url-of-file))
> >
> > This causes emacs to start opening the file using google chrome. In the
> > task manager, i can see emacs' memory usage go up by about 5 megabytes
> > each time a tab is opened. When it opens about 30 tabs, emacs is using
> > 138 megabytes of memory, and it gives the error below.
> > the translation is something like this: "ShellExecute failed: Storage
> > space insufficient to process this command"
> > My harddrive has enough storage space btw.
>
> Do you happen to have any shell extensions installed?  ShellExecute can
> run arbitrary third-party code through this extension mechanism.
>
>

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