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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2020 22:02:39 +0200

> From: Trevor Bentley <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked],
>  [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked]
> Cc: 
> Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2020 20:38:38 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> >> you are suggesting that it should print something to 
> >> *Messages*, right? 
> > 
> > No, in the echo area.  these messages don't go to *Messages*. 
> 
> Oh!  Well, yes, it is there then.  I didn't realize you can echo 
> without going to *Messages*.  It's extremely fleeting... is there 
> some way to persist these messages?

But if GC is taking minutes, you should be seeing the first of these 2
messages sitting in the echo area for the full duration of those
minutes.  So how can they be so ephemeral in your case?