GNU bug report logs - #43389
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: Re: bug#43389: 28.0.50; Emacs memory leaks using hard disk all time
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2020 21:03:05 +0100

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

>> From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller <at> live.com>
>> Cc: 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 20:38:45 +0100
>> 
>> By the way; I haven't experienced this since 18th this month; day after
>> when I rebuild. So it has been almost 5 days without a crash. But I also
>> don't shift big folders any more; I cleanud up my old backup drive.
>> Is there some hefty ram-tasking benchmark with lots of random list
>> creations and deletions I could run; maybe some suitable ert-test
>> already written?
>
> I don't think so, and we don't have a clear idea yet regarding what
> exactly causes this, so it's difficult to know what could be
> relevant.  We must wait until something like that happen, and collect
> data then.
Yes yes, ok. thanks.

I'll try to build heaptrack and see if it works well with Emacs first;
I'm little bit curious about it.

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