GNU bug report logs - #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)

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Message #104 received at 3208 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org>
To: Kenichi Handa <handa <at> m17n.org>
Cc: schierlm <at> gmx.de, 3208 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 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)
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.

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