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28.0.50; Emacs memory leaks

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From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller <at> live.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: fweimer <at> redhat.com, 43389 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bugs <at> gnu.support, dj <at> redhat.com, michael_heerdegen <at> web.de, trevor <at> trevorbentley.com, carlos <at> redhat.com
Subject: bug#43389: 28.0.50; Emacs memory leaks using hard disk all time
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2020 19:40:23 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller <at> live.com>
>> Cc: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>,  fweimer <at> redhat.com,
>>   43389 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  dj <at> redhat.com,  michael_heerdegen <at> web.de,
>>   trevor <at> trevorbentley.com,  carlos <at> redhat.com
>> Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2020 18:29:40 +0100
>> 
>> For me it happends like really, really fast. Things work normally, and
>> then suddenly everythign freezes, and after first freeze, it takes for
>> every to see result of any keypress. For example video in Firefox gets
>> slow down to like a frame per minut or so; I can see that system is
>> alive, but it is impossible to type something like (garbage-collect) and
>> see the result; I would be sitting here for a day :-). 
>
> That doesn't sound like a memory problem to me.
Ok; acknowledged; any idea what it could be? I have attached you a
syslog from one crash point, you can see Emacs is using almost 8gig or
RAM, but I have 32, so there is plenty of unused RAM over. Mayve Emacs
internal book keeping of memory? Number of pages? I have no idea myself,
sorry if I am not so helpful.

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