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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Mario Valencia <mariovalspi <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 23:40:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #26 received at 20220 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 20220 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Mario Valencia <mariovalspi <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#20220: severe memory leak on emacs 24.4.1
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 17:03:58 -0400
> It is also possible that if you leave Emacs running for a long enough
> time after closing the URL, the thread and its memory will be
> released; I didn't try to investigate that.

Right, the question is: if there's only 1 active "ShellExecute" process
at the same time (but repeated in a loop), does the memory still keep growing?
If it does, we definitely have a problem.

[  I suspect this has already been answered, but I haven't read this thread
   with enough care to find out.  ]

        Stefan




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