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25.2; garbage-collect doesn't reclaim large *compilation*

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From: Peter Ludemann <peter.ludemann <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org, Peter Ludemann <peter.ludemann <at> gmail.com>
Subject: 25.2; garbage-collect doesn't reclaim large *compilation*
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2019 11:58:22 -0800

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I ran a large compilation (to the *compilation* buffer) (232,701 lines,
52M).
While running this, the memory usage increased as follows (output from ps
auwwwxxx):

Sun Dec 15 10:52:27 PST 2019
USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
peter     1496  0.0  0.0   4524   828 pts/1    S    10:50   0:00
emacsclient -c
peter    31443  6.4  0.5 417868 90012 ?        Ssl  10:49   0:10 emacs
--daemon

Sun Dec 15 11:42:41 PST 2019
USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
peter     1496  0.0  0.0   4524    64 pts/1    S    10:50   0:00
emacsclient -c
peter    31443  5.6 51.9 9277928 8466908 ?     Ssl  10:49   3:00 emacs
--daemon

I deleted the *compilation* window and ran garbage-collect; memory usage
decreased slightly, but not nearly to the original memory usage.
It appears that the *compilation* window doesn't get garbage collected.

Sun Dec 15 11:45:08 PST 2019
USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
peter     1496  0.0  0.0   4524    64 pts/1    S    10:50   0:00
emacsclient -c
peter    31443  5.5 49.6 8913748 8103072 ?     Ssl  10:49   3:03 emacs
--daemon

Running emacs daemon, started with the command
GDK=emacs emacs --daemon

In GNU Emacs 25.2.2 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.21)
 of 2017-09-22, modified by Debian built on lgw01-amd64-050
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11906000
System Description: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS

Configured using:
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 --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib
 --localstatedir=/var/lib --infodir=/usr/share/info
 --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-pop=yes
 --enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs25:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/25.2/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/25.2/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp
 --with-sound=alsa --without-gconf --build x86_64-linux-gnu
 --prefix=/usr --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib
 --localstatedir=/var/lib --infodir=/usr/share/info
 --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-pop=yes
 --enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs25:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/25.2/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/25.2/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp
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-fstack-protector-strong
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Recent messages:
Error during redisplay: (jit-lock-function 53777230) signaled (quit)
Quit
Mark set
Quit
Mark set
Quit [2 times]
Saving file /tmp/compilation-2...
Wrote /tmp/compilation-2
Quit [4 times]
Type C-x 1 to delete the help window.
Quit [5 times]

Load-path shadows:
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/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian-startup
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/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/cmake-mode
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~/emacs/prolog hides /usr/share/emacs/25.2/lisp/progmodes/prolog
/usr/share/emacs25/site-lisp/latex-cjk-thai/thai-word hides
/usr/share/emacs/25.2/lisp/language/thai-word

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Message #8 received at 38629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Peter Ludemann <peter.ludemann <at> gmail.com>
To: 38629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Loading/killing the compilation output doesn't lose memory
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2019 20:16:50 -0800

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If I save the *compilation* buffer and restart emacs, memory usage goes up
modestly when I load the file (52MB; it is automatically fontified by emacs
when I load it):

USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
peter    19037  0.6  0.7 441776 115476 ?       Ssl  11:59   2:49 emacs
--daemon
peter    19037  0.6  1.0 495832 169776 ?       Ssl  11:59   2:50 emacs
--daemon

and memory usage returns to about the previous value when I kill the buffer
(I don't need to run 'garbage-collect).

So, the problems seems to be somewhere in the "compile" command:
(a) it uses a *lot* more memory than needed to display the result
(b) it doesn't free that memory when compilation ends or when the
compilation buffer is killed

My "compilation" is actually compile plus 8200 tests, speeding them up by
using GNU-parallel.

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Message #11 received at 38629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Peter Ludemann <peter.ludemann <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 38629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38629: 25.2;
 garbage-collect doesn't reclaim large *compilation*
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2019 09:24:10 -0500

Peter Ludemann <peter.ludemann <at> gmail.com> writes:

> I ran a large compilation (to the *compilation* buffer) (232,701 lines,
> 52M).

> In GNU Emacs 25.2.2 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.21)
>  of 2017-09-22, modified by Debian built on lgw01-amd64-050
> Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11906000
> System Description: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS

I think this is a variant of Bug#26952 - "repeated buffer insertion
(e.g. yank-rectangle) consumes excessive memory (4GB+ for 90MB of
text)".  I recommend upgrading to version 26.

Message #14 received at 38629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Peter Ludemann <peter.ludemann <at> gmail.com>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 38629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38629: 25.2;
 garbage-collect doesn't reclaim large *compilation*
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2019 08:48:57 -0800

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It seems that emacs25 and emacs26 can't be in the same Ubuntu 18.04
installation (using ppa:kelleyk/emacs), so it'll take me a bit of work to
verify that the problem is fixed in emacs26.


On Mon, 16 Dec 2019 at 06:24, Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com> wrote:

> Peter Ludemann <peter.ludemann <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I ran a large compilation (to the *compilation* buffer) (232,701 lines,
> > 52M).
>
> > In GNU Emacs 25.2.2 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.21)
> >  of 2017-09-22, modified by Debian built on lgw01-amd64-050
> > Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version
> 11.0.11906000
> > System Description: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS
>
> I think this is a variant of Bug#26952 - "repeated buffer insertion
> (e.g. yank-rectangle) consumes excessive memory (4GB+ for 90MB of
> text)".  I recommend upgrading to version 26.
>
>
>

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Message #17 received at 38629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Peter Ludemann <peter.ludemann <at> gmail.com>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 38629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38629: 25.2;
 garbage-collect doesn't reclaim large *compilation*
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2019 15:37:55 -0800

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Upgrading to Emacs 26.3 seems to have fixed the memory problem but now
there's another problem ... emacs becomes incredibly sluggish (almost
unuseable) -- top(1) shows 70-100% CPU utilization even when the
compilation step isn't outputting anything. (I use GNU parallel on the
tests, with options to preserve the output order, so output happens at
intervals.)

The compilation command is "find ... | sort | nice parallel -j 8
--keep-order --group -L80" (on a 4 CPU machine).
I tried reducing the number of parallel jobs to 3, but that didn't help.

Should I open a new bug for this? If so, what information can I collect, to
help determine the cause?

On Mon, 16 Dec 2019 at 06:24, Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com> wrote:

> Peter Ludemann <peter.ludemann <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I ran a large compilation (to the *compilation* buffer) (232,701 lines,
> > 52M).
>
> > In GNU Emacs 25.2.2 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.21)
> >  of 2017-09-22, modified by Debian built on lgw01-amd64-050
> > Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version
> 11.0.11906000
> > System Description: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS
>
> I think this is a variant of Bug#26952 - "repeated buffer insertion
> (e.g. yank-rectangle) consumes excessive memory (4GB+ for 90MB of
> text)".  I recommend upgrading to version 26.
>
>
>

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Message #20 received at 38629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Peter Ludemann <peter.ludemann <at> gmail.com>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 38629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38629: 25.2;
 garbage-collect doesn't reclaim large *compilation*
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2019 16:19:44 -0800

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The sluggishness is not related to the *compilation* window, so we can
close this bug (as fixed by emacs 26.3) and I'll open a new bug report.

Thank-you for your help! (And thank-you to Kevin Kelley for setting up the
PPA for emacs26.3)

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Message #23 received at 38629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Peter Ludemann <peter.ludemann <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 38629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38629: 25.2;
 garbage-collect doesn't reclaim large *compilation*
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 08:14:00 -0500

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Peter Ludemann <peter.ludemann <at> gmail.com> writes:

> The sluggishness is not related to the *compilation* window, so we can
> close this bug (as fixed by emacs 26.3) and I'll open a new bug report.

Thanks for checking.

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