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28.0.50; Emacs memory leaks

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From: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>
To: Carlos O'Donell <carlos <at> redhat.com>
Cc: fweimer <at> redhat.com, 43389 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, dj <at> redhat.com, michael_heerdegen <at> web.de, trevor <at> trevorbentley.com, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#43389: 28.0.50; Emacs memory leaks using hard disk all time
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2020 21:58:28 +0300

* Carlos O'Donell <carlos <at> redhat.com> [2020-11-23 18:54]:
> On 11/23/20 8:27 AM, Jean Louis wrote:
> > * Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> [2020-11-22 23:17]:
> >>> Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2020 22:52:14 +0300
> >>> From: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>
> >>> Cc: 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
> >>>
> >>> I am now following this strategy here:
> >>> https://github.com/jemalloc/jemalloc/wiki/Use-Case%3A-Leak-Checking
> >>
> >> That uses a different implementation of malloc, so I'm not sure it
> >> will help us.
> > 
> > This is how I have run the shorter Emacs session until it got blocked:
> > 
> > MTRACE_CTL_VERBOSE=1 MTRACE_CTL_FILE=/home/data1/protected/tmp/mtraceEMACS.mtr LD_PRELOAD=/home/data1/protected/Programming/git/glibc-malloc-trace-utils/libmtrace.so emacs >> $DEBUG 2>&1
> > 
> > And here is mtrace:
> > 
> > https://gnu.support/files/tmp/2020-11-23/mtraceEMACS.mtr.9294.lz
> > 
> > I cannot run Emacs that way as something happens and Emacs get
> > blocked. Problem arrives with M-s M-w to search for anything on
> > Internet with eww. Anything blocks. And I get message:
> > 
> > error in process filter: Quit
> 
> Sorry, please drop MTRACE_CTL_VERBOSE=1, as it adds output to stdout
> which may affect the process if using pipes.

# MTRACE_CTL_VERBOSE=1
MTRACE_CTL_FILE=/home/data1/protected/tmp/mtraceEMACS.mtr LD_PRELOAD=/home/data1/protected/Programming/git/glibc-malloc-trace-utils/libmtrace.so emacs >> $DEBUG 2>&1

I have tried like above and it will block as soon as eww is loads some
page with the same error as previously.

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