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

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
Cc: pot <at> gnu.org, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, 26952 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#26952: 25.1;
 loops eating all memory while yanking big rectangle
Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 06:58:34 +0300

> From: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  26952 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  pot <at> gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 21 May 2017 16:06:31 -0400
> 
> Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> writes:
> 
> > Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> Paul, is it feasible to back-port the hybrid allocation to the
> >> emacs-25 branch?
> >
> > I suppose it would be, yes. Not that I'd relish doing it.
> 
> Alternatively, we could set REL_ALLOC=yes by default again (AFAIK, we
> did fix the bugs in that configuration in addition to turning it off).

I'd rather not go back there.
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