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24.3; GDI Handles leak(Windows)

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From: Akihiro KAYAMA <kayama <at> tiresia.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.3; GDI Handles leak(Windows)
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 18:49:48 +0900

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to one day, you should receive an acknowledgment at that address.

Please write in English if possible, as the Emacs maintainers
usually do not have translators for other languages.

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug, and
the precise symptoms of the bug.  If you can, give a recipe
starting from `emacs -Q':

--
When using multiple emacs frames and shell buffer in Windows,
Emacs process's GDI Handles increase constantly.

How to reproduce:

 - emacs.exe -Q
 - M-x make-frame-command
 - M-x shell
 - ping 127.0.0.1 -t (continuous shell output)
 - M-x find-file (open some mini buffer)
 - inspect Emacs process's GDI Handles by Process Explorer(
www.sysinternals.com)

As the increasing ratio is in proportion to number of frames, with a
dozen frames Emacs process can easily reach Windows OS limit(=10000 handles)
in a few minutes.
--


If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger,
please include the output from the following gdb commands:
    `bt full' and `xbacktrace'.
For information about debugging Emacs, please read the file
c:/Program Files (x86)/emacs-24.3/etc/DEBUG.


In GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601)
 of 2013-03-18 on MARVIN
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
 `configure --with-gcc (4.7) --cflags
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/include
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/src
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libpng-dev_1.4.3-1/include
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/zlib-dev_1.2.5-2/include
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/giflib-4.1.4-1/include
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/jpeg-6b-4/include
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/tiff-3.8.2-1/include
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/gnutls-3.0.9/include
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libiconv-1.13.1-1-dev/include
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libxml2-2.7.8/include/libxml2'

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: JPN
  locale-coding-system: cp932
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Shell

Minor modes in effect:
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
ESC x m a k e - f r <tab> - <tab> c o <tab> RET <switch-frame>
ESC x s h e l l RET p i n g SPC 1 2 7 . 0 . 0 . 1 SPC
- t RET ESC x f i n d - f i l e RET <down-mouse-1>
<mouse-movement> <mouse-1> C-g ESC x C-g C-g C-n C-n
ESC x r e p o r t - e m <tab> RET

Recent messages:
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
Making completion list...
You can run the command `make-frame-command' with C-x 5 2
Quit
completing-read-default: Command attempted to use minibuffer while in
minibuffer
Quit [2 times]

Load-path shadows:
None found.

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Message #8 received at 14850 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Akihiro KAYAMA <kayama <at> tiresia.org>
Cc: 14850 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14850: 24.3; GDI Handles leak(Windows)
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 15:55:35 +0300

> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 18:49:48 +0900
> From: Akihiro KAYAMA <kayama <at> tiresia.org>
> 
> When using multiple emacs frames and shell buffer in Windows,
> Emacs process's GDI Handles increase constantly.
> 
> How to reproduce:
> 
>  - emacs.exe -Q
>  - M-x make-frame-command
>  - M-x shell
>  - ping 127.0.0.1 -t (continuous shell output)
>  - M-x find-file (open some mini buffer)
>  - inspect Emacs process's GDI Handles by Process Explorer(
> www.sysinternals.com)
> 
> As the increasing ratio is in proportion to number of frames, with a
> dozen frames Emacs process can easily reach Windows OS limit(=10000 handles)
> in a few minutes.

I don't think the number of frames is such an important factor here.
E.g., try evaluating this in "emacs -Q":

  (dotimes (i 30) (make-frame))

and compare the number of GDI objects before and after.  On my
machine, the difference is much smaller than 30, it's more like 10.

Anyway, I looked through the sources for the Windows API calls that
are documented to produce GDI objects.  All of them seem to have the
appropriate calls to DeleteObject or similar APIs that release these
resources.  So it doesn't seem like we are too sloppy about this, at
least not enough for me to find that.  Not that I know too much about
this issue.

Patches are welcome to make our usage of GDI objects smaller.
Pointers to places where we fail to release GDI objects are also
welcome.

Message #11 received at 14850 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: kayama <at> tiresia.org
Cc: 14850 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14850: 24.3; GDI Handles leak(Windows)
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 17:22:37 +0300

> Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 15:55:35 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: 14850 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Patches are welcome to make our usage of GDI objects smaller.
> Pointers to places where we fail to release GDI objects are also
> welcome.

Found and plugged one place, although I'm not sure how frequently we
lose a handle due to that.

Message #16 received at 14850-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Akihiro KAYAMA <kayama.akihiro <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 14850-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14850: 24.3; GDI Handles leak(Windows)
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 19:06:47 +0300

> Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 18:55:24 +0900
> From: Akihiro KAYAMA <kayama.akihiro <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: 14850 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> I understand you can't reproduce GDI Handles leak. Just to make sure,
> I mention again three requiremetns fot it.
> 
>  - multiple frames
>  - continuous shell buffer output(maybe mode line updates)
>  - mini buffer

Actually, I think I did succeed to reproduce this.  Here's a much
easier method, for the record:

  emacs -Q
  M-x make-frame-command RET
  M-: (require 'time) RET
  M-: (setq display-time-interval 1) RET
  M-: (setq display-time-format "%H:%M:%S") RET
  M-x display-time RET
  C-x C-f

As long as Emacs sits at the minibuffer prompt, you'll have a GDI
handle leaked once every second, according to display-time-interval.
Type C-g to get out of the minibuffer, and the leak stops.

IOW, the conditions for this are:

 . more than 1 frame

 . active minibuffer prompt, and

 . continuous redisplay

According to my measurements, the change I made in revision 113415
completely stops GDI handle leak in this scenario, and also in your
original one.  So I will close this bug; feel free to reopen if you
can still come up with a scenario where GDI objects are leaked.

The changes I committed are below, for your convenience.

=== modified file 'src/ChangeLog'
--- src/ChangeLog	2013-07-13 10:29:15 +0000
+++ src/ChangeLog	2013-07-13 14:21:01 +0000
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2013-07-13  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz <at> gnu.org>
 
+	* w32term.c (x_draw_hollow_cursor): Delete the brush object when
+	returning early.  (Bug#14850)
+
 	* coding.c (syms_of_coding): Set up inhibit-null-byte-detection
 	and inhibit-iso-escape-detection attributes of 'undecided'.
 	(Bug#14822)

=== modified file 'src/w32term.c'
--- src/w32term.c	2013-07-06 02:40:50 +0000
+++ src/w32term.c	2013-07-13 14:21:01 +0000
@@ -5174,7 +5174,10 @@ x_draw_hollow_cursor (struct window *w, 
      the current matrix is invalid or such, give up.  */
   cursor_glyph = get_phys_cursor_glyph (w);
   if (cursor_glyph == NULL)
-    return;
+    {
+      DeleteObject (hb);
+      return;
+    }
 
   /* Compute frame-relative coordinates for phys cursor.  */
   get_phys_cursor_geometry (w, row, cursor_glyph, &left, &top, &h);

Message #19 received at 14850 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Akihiro KAYAMA <kayama.akihiro <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 14850 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14850: 24.3; GDI Handles leak(Windows)
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 18:55:24 +0900

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Thank you very much for your quick response.

I understand you can't reproduce GDI Handles leak. Just to make sure,
I mention again three requiremetns fot it.

 - multiple frames
 - continuous shell buffer output(maybe mode line updates)
 - mini buffer

And also, I have tested only on Japanese version Windows XP and Windows 7.
System fonts or locale or OS Input Method differencies may affect this.

-- kayama



2013/7/13 Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

> > Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 15:55:35 +0300
> > From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> > Cc: 14850 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > Patches are welcome to make our usage of GDI objects smaller.
> > Pointers to places where we fail to release GDI objects are also
> > welcome.
>
> Found and plugged one place, although I'm not sure how frequently we
> lose a handle due to that.
>

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