From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040312 Galeon/1.3.14 Description of problem: Not too long ago Bill Nottingham added xrestop to Fedora so we/he could track application leaking resources. Using GNUS (as a newsreader), it appears that emacs leaks a lot of resources when it displays images internally (inside its window instead of launching eog). The more images it displays the more memory it uses. Here's the output of xrestop for an instance of emacs that has been up for 2 days: xrestop - Display: localhost:0 Monitoring 20 clients. XErrors: 0 Pixmaps: 190071K total, Other: 136K total, All: 190207K total res-base Wins GCs Fnts Pxms Misc Pxm mem Other Total PID Identifier 1a00000 8 84 6 158 133 177726K 11K 177737K ? emacs@mcs Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): emacs-21.3-11 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start emacs 2. Go on usenet and reads some binaries forums (for me it's alt.binaries.pictures.aviation) 3. Look at emacs eating your memory Additional info:
Any better with cvs emacs?
in particular with gtk2 support
Ok, just got cvs emacs this morning, compiled it using "configure --with-gtk && setarch i386 make bootstrap" and the problem is still present.
Thanks for testing with cvs Emacs too. :-) I recommend reporting this issue upstream: eg on emacs-devel.