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

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From: Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org>
To: Mario Valencia <mariovalspi <at> gmail.com>, 20220 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20220: severe memory leak on emacs 24.4.1
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 23:01:00 -0700

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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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