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

From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 43389 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Joshua Branson <jbranso <at> dismail.de>
Subject: Re: bug#43389: 28.0.50; Emacs memory leaks
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 09:53:59 +0200

>>>>> On Fri, 18 Sep 2020 09:56:14 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> said:

    >> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 17:58:51 -0400
    >> From: Joshua Branson via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
    >> the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
    >> 
    >> 
    >> Over in #guix irc, the guix people seemed to think it was a memory leak with helm.

    Eli> Thanks.

    Eli> But if it's due to helm, why doesn't the huge memory usage show in the
    Eli> report produced by GC?  That report should show all the Lisp object
    Eli> that we allocate and manage, no?  Where does helm-ff-cache keeps those
    Eli> "candidates"?  (And what is this cache, if someone could be kind
    Eli> enough to describe it?)

Itʼs a hash table. It caches directory contents, as far as I can tell.

Robert
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