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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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer <at> redhat.com>
Cc: carlos <at> redhat.com, 43389 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, dj <at> redhat.com
Subject: bug#43389: 28.0.50; Emacs memory leaks
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 23:10:19 +0200

> From: Florian Weimer <fweimer <at> redhat.com>
> Cc: dj <at> redhat.com,  carlos <at> redhat.com,  43389 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 21:58:57 +0100
> 
> (let ((size 0))
>   (dolist (buffer (buffer-list) size)
>     (setq size (+ size (buffer-size buffer)))))
> ⇒ 98249826
> 
> So it's not a small number, but still far away from those 800 MiB.

Yes.  I have a very similar value: 94642916 (in 376 buffers; you have
more than 1000).  This is in a session that runs for 17 days and whose
VM size is 615 MB: a "normal" size for a long-living session, nowhere
near 2GB, let alone 11GB someone reported.
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