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28.0.50; Emacs memory leaks

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From: Trevor Bentley <trevor <at> trevorbentley.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, carlos <at> redhat.com, michael_heerdegen <at> web.de, 
Subject: bug#43389: 28.0.50; Emacs memory leaks using hard disk all time
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2020 20:38:38 +0100

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

>> you are suggesting that it should print something to 
>> *Messages*, right? 
> 
> No, in the echo area.  these messages don't go to *Messages*. 

Oh!  Well, yes, it is there then.  I didn't realize you can echo 
without going to *Messages*.  It's extremely fleeting... is there 
some way to persist these messages?

>> I've never tried emacs's profiler.  I'll try that next time I 
>> do a  big garbage-collect and see what it shows. 
> 
> That won't help in this case: GC is in C, and the profiler 
> doesn't profile C code that is not exposed to Lisp. 

Ah, ok.  Well, I'll try it anyway, and expect nothing.

-Trevor

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