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

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Naveed Chehrazi <nchehrazi <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 43876 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#43876: Emacs uses excessive memory
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2020 09:58:24 +0300

merge 43876 43389
thanks

> From: Naveed Chehrazi <nchehrazi <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2020 19:53:02 -0500
> 
> I had two instances where my emacs was using an excessive amount of memory (once about 45GiB, and
> once using 94GiB). I have the memory-profiler report below. It appears that helm package is the cause,

Please disregard the profiler results: it doesn't measure memory
consumption, not at all.

What would be beneficial for this and similar bug reports (see
bug#43389) is to describe what you are doing when memory footprint of
the Emacs process grows significantly.  That might give some ideas
about where to look for the culprit(s).

Do you have some customizations that change gc-cons-threshold?
This bug report was last modified 4 years and 58 days ago.

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