Subject: bug#3208: 23.0.93; Memory full / crash when displaying lots of characters from a large font (like Arial Unicode or Code2000) which is not explicitly selected (on Win32)

From: Jason Rumney <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:54:36 +0800

Kenichi Handa wrote:
> If no GC happens while displaying all characters of that
> long line, those temporarily created Lisp vectors accumulate
> in memory without reused, which may lead to memory full.
>   

While I was profiling to try to identify a possible cause, there were 6 
GCs in the 25 seconds that Emacs was running (taking up 22% of the 
time). So GC does seem to happen, though maybe it was after the first 
warning was thrown.