GNU bug report logs - #37006
27.0.50; garbage collection not happening after 26de2d42

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Joseph Mingrone <jrm <at> ftfl.ca>

Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2019 12:41:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Found in version 27.0.50

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Joseph Mingrone <jrm <at> ftfl.ca>
Cc: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 37006 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Akater <nuclearspace <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#37006: Emacs 27 master consumes more memory than 26 and freezes regularly
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2019 10:01:26 -0700

On 9/5/19 9:12 AM, Joseph Mingrone wrote:
>> As this should fix the problem reported in Bug#37006 I'm boldly closing that bug report.
> This issue still exists for me.  After rebuilding on 5f089ac, I re-added
> the (setq gc-cons-threshold most-positive-fixnum) / (setq
> gc-cons-threshold 800000) surrounding init.el (assuming the issue was
> fixed) then when Emacs' memory usage was over 2 GB, I turned on
> `garbage-collection-messages', opened some large files, and could see
> that garbage collection was not happening.

OK, reopening the bug report. I take it that all I need to do is to 
modify init.el as mentioned above, and then edit some large files. I'll 
take a look at that.
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