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

From: Trevor Bentley <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2020 20:17:27 +0100

Carlos O'Donell <[email-masked]> writes:

> On 11/25/20 1:51 PM, Trevor Bentley wrote: 
>> I also still hit it while running under Valgrind; the whole 
>> emacs session was slow as hell, but still managed to blow out 
>> its heap in a few days.  Of course, libmtrace could be 
>> different, but at least it doesn't seem to be a heisenbug. 
> 
> Do you have a valgrind report to share? 

Yes, they were earlier in this bug report, perhaps before you 
joined.  It was the 'massif' heap tracing tool from the valgrind 
suite, not the regular valgrind leak detector.

Here are the links again:

  The raw massif output: 
 
  http://trevorbentley.com/massif.out.3364630 
 
  The *full* tree output: 
 
  http://trevorbentley.com/ms_print.3364630.txt 
 
  The tree output showing only entries above 10% usage: 
 
  http://trevorbentley.com/ms_print.thresh10.3364630.txt

-Trevor