GNU bug report logs - #26952
25.2; repeated buffer insertion (e.g. yank-rectangle) consumes excessive memory (4GB+ for 90MB of text)

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Francesco Potortì <pot <at> gnu.org>

Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 14:55:01 UTC

Severity: important

Merged with 27498, 31092, 38629

Found in versions 25.1, 25.2

Fixed in version 26.1

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: jwiegley <at> gmail.com, pot <at> gnu.org, npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net, 26952 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26952: 25.1; loops eating all memory while yanking big rectangle
Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 13:59:33 -0700

On 05/25/2017 12:34 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> What I meant is to make hybrid_malloc the default on the same systems
> where it is the default on master, in particular on GNU/Linux systems.
> Not sure if this is helpful enough.

I'm afraid not. This is partly why I didn't want to backport the fix: I 
don't know what needs to be backported, and figuring that out will be 
nontrivial.
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