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: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: John Wiegley <jwiegley <at> gmail.com>
Cc: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net, pot <at> gnu.org, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, 26952 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26952: 25.1; loops eating all memory while yanking big rectangle
Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 20:45:13 +0300

> From: John Wiegley <jwiegley <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu,  26952 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  pot <at> gnu.org,  npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
> Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 09:48:47 -0700
> 
> I can certainly sympathize.
> 
> FWIW, I too have noticed Emacs 25.2 being quite unstable. For the longest
> time, Emacs 24 would run for months without crashing even once. Now it crashes
> pretty regularly 2-4 times a day. I wonder now if I'm hitting a memory ceiling
> that is triggering the behavior we're describing...
> 
> I'm OK with backporting, btw, and would be happy to test if it fixes my issues
> too.

Paul, could you please do that?

Actually, I see that the hybrid_malloc code does exist on the branch,
so what is needed to be done? configury stuff?
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