GNU bug report logs - #43389
28.0.50; Emacs memory leaks

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>

Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 00:44:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 43395, 43876, 44666

Found in version 28.0.50

Done: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #185 received at 43389 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: DJ Delorie <dj <at> redhat.com>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer <at> redhat.com>
Cc: carlos <at> redhat.com, 43389 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, eliz <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#43389: 28.0.50; Emacs memory leaks
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 15:16:11 -0500

Florian Weimer <fweimer <at> redhat.com> writes:
> But how helpful would that be, given that malloc_info does not really
> show any inactive memory (discounting my 200 MiB hole)?

One doesn't know how helpful until after looking at the data.  If RSS is
going up fast, something is calling either sbrk or mmap.  If that thing
is malloc, a trace tells us if there's a pattern.  If that pattern
blames the lisp allocator, my job here is done ;-)
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