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28.0.50; Emacs memory leaks

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Message #752 received at 43389 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Trevor Bentley <trevor <at> trevorbentley.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
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: Re: bug#43389: 28.0.50; Emacs memory leaks using hard disk all time
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2020 21:14:05 +0100

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

>> Could be, but for tens of minutes? 
> 
> If the system is paging, it could take that long, yes. 
> 
>> AFAIK gc_sweep shouldn't cause too much thrashing either (the 
>> sweep is a mostly sequential scan of memory, so even if the 
>> total heap is larger than your total RAM, it should be ~O(total 
>> heap size / bandwidth from 

In my particular case, I have plenty of free memory.  I assume 
nothing is paging to disk in any of my reports, though I haven't 
thought to explicitly check.

-Trevor

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