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

From: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: fweimer <at> redhat.com, 43389 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, dj <at> redhat.com, carlos <at> redhat.com,
 trevor <at> trevorbentley.com, michael_heerdegen <at> web.de
Subject: Re: bug#43389: 28.0.50; Emacs memory leaks using hard disk all time
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2020 22:49:51 +0300

* Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> [2020-11-23 22:35]:
> > Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2020 21:58:28 +0300
> > From: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>
> > Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, fweimer <at> redhat.com,
> >   43389 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, dj <at> redhat.com, michael_heerdegen <at> web.de,
> >   trevor <at> trevorbentley.com
> > 
> > > 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
> 
> Any reason you redirect stderr to stdout?  I'm not saying that is the
> reason for the EWW problems, but just to be sure, can you try without
> that?  The trace goes to stderr, right?  So just "2> file" should be
> sufficient to collect the trace.  Carlos, am I right?

That could be. I have just tried with:

MTRACE_CTL_FILE=/home/data1/protected/tmp/mtraceEMACS.mtr LD_PRELOAD=/home/data1/protected/Programming/git/glibc-malloc-trace-utils/libmtrace.so emacs

and there is some lock, I have to invoke xkill to kill Emacs.

I wonder why it worked before.

Now it blocks also like this:

LD_PRELOAD=/home/data1/protected/Programming/git/glibc-malloc-trace-utils/libmtrace.so emacs

It must be something with my configuration, so I will research and try
again when I find what is the problem.
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