GNU bug report logs - #38187
27.0.50; No mouse-wheel scaling on images

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Message #101 received at 38187 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, stefan <at> marxist.se, larsi <at> gnus.org,
 38187 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38187: 27.0.50; No mouse-wheel scaling on images
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 00:51:22 +0200

>> BTW, while testing it for image scaling on a quite small image file,
>> Emacs consumed several GB of all available memory and almost all swap,
>> before I noticed and evaluated M-: (clear-image-cache) that freed memory.
>> 
>> Memory leak?
>
> Was this on X?

Yes, on X.  

> Emacs probably keeps a copy of the image in memory for each size until
> the image cache is cleared or pruned.

Could it clear the image cache automatically when it grows
over some memory limit?

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