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

From: Carlos O'Donell <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2020 17:15:29 -0500

On 11/27/20 10:33 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked],
>>  [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked]
>> From: Carlos O'Donell <[email-masked]>
>> Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 00:04:56 -0500
>>
>> lisp_align_malloc (alloc.c:1195)
>>  Fcons (alloc.c:2694)
>>   concat (fns.c:730)
>>    Fcopy_sequence (fns.c:598)
>>     timer_check (keyboard.c:4395)
>>      wait_reading_process_output (process.c:5334)
>>       sit_for (dispnew.c:6056)
>>        read_char (keyboard.c:2742)
>>         read_key_sequence (keyboard.c:9551)
>>          command_loop_1 (keyboard.c:1354)
>>           internal_condition_case (eval.c:1365)
>>            command_loop_2 (keyboard.c:1095)
>>             internal_catch (eval.c:1126)
>>              command_loop (keyboard.c:1074)
>>               recursive_edit_1 (keyboard.c:718)
>>                Frecursive_edit (keyboard.c:790)
>>                 main (emacs.c:2080)
>>  
>> There is a 171MiB's worth of allocations in that path.
> 
> Are there chains of calls that are responsible for more memory
> allocated than 171MB?
 
Yes, you can view them all yourself, just fetch the massif data
and use massif-visualizer to view the data:

http://trevorbentley.com/massif.out.3364630

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.