Subject: bug#31092: 25.2: apropos-value: memory leak

From: Noam Postavsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2018 08:38:02 -0400

Boruch Baum <[email-masked]> writes:

> In emacs version 25.2, in debian, I am reliably experiencing memory
> exhaustion condition within five repeats of calls to function
> `apropos-value'.

I think this another manifestation of Bug#26952 "repeated buffer
insertion (e.g. yank-rectangle) consumes excessive memory (4GB+ for 90MB
of text)".

You can configure with REL_ALLOC=yes, or try Emacs 26.