Subject: Re: bug#43389: 28.0.50; Emacs memory leaks using hard disk all time

From: Arthur Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2020 22:15:39 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> From: Arthur Miller <[email-masked]>
>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked],
>>   [email-masked],  [email-masked],  [email-masked],
>>   [email-masked],  [email-masked],  [email-masked]
>> Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2020 20:59:21 +0100
>> 
>> How hard/possible is to use this tool in Emacs:
>> 
>> https://gperftools.github.io/gperftools/heapprofile.html
>
> AFAIU, this cannot be used with glibc's malloc, it needs libtcmalloc
> instead.
Oh yes I understand, there is not a chance it would help to run emacs on
tcmalloc instead of standard malloc? If there is by a chance a leak
somewhere in Emacs? ... god forbid of course :-)