On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 11:46:15PM -0500, Thomas L Roche wrote: >On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> Hmm. I really don't understand why unless you were unzipping *a lot* >>> of files with long filenames. There should have been something like >>> 32MB of space to waste before you saw the problem. > >Igor Pechtchanski Tue, 17 Feb 2004 22:09:51 -0500 (EST) >> They were. 1.4G zip archives with tens of thousands of small files, >many >> with path lengths > 1k. > >That also explains why the problem only appeared well into a run (30-60 >min), and why it was unreproducible "in the small" (i.e. a testibly-bad >but sendably-short input). Even our relatively small (~100 MB) base files >unzip'ed OK throughout. > >Hoping this helps emacs, too ... can't see how, other than it's also hot >for RAM, but one can hope :-)
The memory leak only happens for file names that are greater than ~130 characters or so. Unless you are doing something with A LOT of files with this characteristic in emacs, it is not likely that this is the problem. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/