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Re: emacs-X11 memory leak?
On 3/7/2019 3:00 PM, Rockefeller, Harry wrote:
>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com <cygwin-owner@cygwin.com> On Behalf Of
>>> Ken Brown
>>> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2019 9:09 AM
>>> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
>>> Subject: Re: emacs-X11 memory leak?
>
>>> On 3/7/2019 9:53 AM, Rockefeller, Harry wrote:
>>>> CYGWIN_NT-6.1 HARRYR-PC 3.0.1(0.338/5/3) 2019-02-20 10:19 x86_64
>>>> Cygwin GNU Emacs 26.1 (build 1, x86_64-unknown-cygwin, GTK+ Version
>>>> 3.22.28) of 2018-05-28
>>>> This started happening about the time I upgraded to Cygwin 3.0.x.
>>>
>>> See http://www.cygwin.org/ml/cygwin/2019-03/msg00122.html, and try the latest cygwin snapshot.
>
>>> Ken
>
>> Thank you. I don't see the memory leak.
> Running the latest snapshot of cygwin1.dll:
> A few hours later now ...
> Emacs crashed. kill -9 PID did not remove it.
> MS Task manager was used to kill it.
> I don't see any obvious errors.
I've been using a build of emacs-26.1.92 (a pretest for emacs-26.2) and haven't
had any problems. If you want to try it, you can install it from my personal
Cygwin repository:
http://sanibeltranquility.com/cygwin
Ken