Subject: Re: bug#16995: 24.3; CPU usage spikes to 100% for minutes at a time

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 09:40:34 -0400

> So I guess the question now becomes why does Python mode conses so
> many Lisp objects that it triggers GC so frequently.

M-x profiler-start RET mem RET
...reproduce the heavy allocation problem...
M-x profiler-report RET

might be a good start.

        Stefan