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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Message #55 received at 26952 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, pot <at> gnu.org, 26952 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#26952: 25.1;
 loops eating all memory while yanking big rectangle
Date: Sun, 21 May 2017 16:40:24 -0400

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

> In the meantime, people who have the problem in 25.2 can go back to 25.1.

No, people who have this problem in 25.2 would have #24358 in 25.1, so
going back would mean frequent segfaults.  The OP reported this against
25.1, but that is a 25.1 modified by Debian, which I believe configures
with REL_ALLOC=no (which is the significant difference of 25.2 vs 25.1
with respect to this bug).
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