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Saving under Windows (sometimes) causes Emacs to freeze and allocate a lot of memory - Emacs 22.3.1

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (Emacs bug Tracking System)
To: fredrik.hellman <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#2309 closed by Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org> (Re: bug#2309: 
 Saving under Windows (sometimes) causes Emacs to freeze and allocate a lot
 of memory - Emacs 22.3.1)
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:35:04 +0000

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#2309: Saving under Windows (sometimes) causes Emacs to freeze and allocate  a lot of memory - Emacs 22.3.1

It has been closed by Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org>.

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From: Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org>
To: 2309-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: fredrik.hellman <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#2309: Saving under Windows (sometimes) causes Emacs to freeze
 and allocate a lot of memory - Emacs 22.3.1
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:25:20 +0800

Fredrik Hellman wrote:
>> When I start emacs, open a file in a buffer, do some changes in it and
>> then saves the file with C-x C-s Emacs freezes and I can see how the
>> memory allocated by Emacs slowly increases until it after a few
>> minutes wakes up again and says in a separate buffer:

Thank you for the extra info you provided.

Emacs appears to be in an infinite loop trying to create the 
non-existent directory "d:/" and all its parents.
I've fixed make-directory to abort this loop when the directory is its 
own parent.

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From: Fredrik Hellman <fredrik.hellman <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Saving under Windows (sometimes) causes Emacs to freeze and allocate 
	a lot of memory - Emacs 22.3.1
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:00:59 +0100

Hello!

I have downloaded and installed the following Emacs version for Windows:

GNU Emacs 22.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2008-09-06 on SOFT-MJASON

When I start emacs, open a file in a buffer, do some changes in it and
then saves the file with C-x C-s Emacs freezes and I can see how the
memory allocated by Emacs slowly increases until it after a few
minutes wakes up again and says in a separate buffer:

Emergency (alloc): Warning: past 95% of memory limit

This problem doesn't always occur on saves.

I don't know what more to tell, but if you want more details about
something, feel free to ask me.

Best regards,
Fredrik Hellman

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