Subject: bug#43389: 28.0.50; Emacs memory leaks

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 22:43:35 +0200

> From: Florian Weimer <[email-masked]>
> Cc: DJ Delorie <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 21:35:54 +0100
> 
> * Eli Zaretskii:
> 
> > (It would be interesting to see the GC statistics from Florian's
> > session, btw.)
> 
> Is this the value of (garbage-collect)?
> 
> ((conses 16 1877807 263442)
>  (symbols 48 40153 113)
>  (strings 32 164110 77752)
>  (string-bytes 1 5874689)
>  (vectors 16 64666)
>  (vector-slots 8 1737780 331974)
>  (floats 8 568 1115)
>  (intervals 56 163746 19749)
>  (buffers 1000 1092))

Yes.  "C-h f garbage-collect" will describe the meaning of the
numbers.  AFAICT, this barely explains 70 MBytes and change of Lisp
data.  (The "buffers" part excludes buffer text, but you should be
able to add that by summing the sizes shown by "C-x C-b".)