Subject: Re: bug#43389: 28.0.50; Emacs memory leaks

From: Robert Pluim <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 09:53:59 +0200

>>>>> On Fri, 18 Sep 2020 09:56:14 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> said:

    >> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 17:58:51 -0400
    >> From: Joshua Branson via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
    >> the Swiss army knife of text editors" <[email-masked]>
    >> 
    >> 
    >> Over in #guix irc, the guix people seemed to think it was a memory leak with helm.

    Eli> Thanks.

    Eli> But if it's due to helm, why doesn't the huge memory usage show in the
    Eli> report produced by GC?  That report should show all the Lisp object
    Eli> that we allocate and manage, no?  Where does helm-ff-cache keeps those
    Eli> "candidates"?  (And what is this cache, if someone could be kind
    Eli> enough to describe it?)

Itʼs a hash table. It caches directory contents, as far as I can tell.

Robert