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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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Russell Adams <RLAdams <at> AdamsInfoServ.Com>
Cc: 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
Subject: bug#43389: 28.0.50; Emacs memory leaks
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2020 22:13:56 +0200

> Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2020 20:56:31 +0100
> From: Russell Adams <RLAdams <at> AdamsInfoServ.Com>
> Cc: dj <at> redhat.com, fweimer <at> redhat.com, trevor <at> trevorbentley.com,
> 	michael_heerdegen <at> web.de, carlos <at> redhat.com, 43389 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> I find particularly of interest the growth of Emacs processes while
> idle.
> 
> Yesterday I restarted Emacs and over the next 18 hours I left my
> laptop idle with Emacs as the focused application. My Emacs has grown
> to 3GB and every time I select my Emacs window it will grow by a few
> MB while I watch in htop.

Is there any way to get a trace/record of X events that are delivered
to Emacs during this kind of idleness?  Those events and the timers
are, I think, the only things that are going inside such an idle
session.
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