GNU bug report logs - #43406
Helm 3.6.5 on Emacs 27.1 leaks memory

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>

Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 19:40:02 UTC

Severity: serious

Done: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii via web <issues.guix.gnu.org <at> elephly.net>
To: 43406 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#43406: Emacs 27.1 memory consumption grows indefinitely
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 08:53:23 +0200

Please don't use "memory profile" as any indication of the Emacs memory usage: it is entirely unrelated to memory.

The Emacs profiler only profiles CPU usage.  It samples the PC register using a special signal (SIGPROF), which is the usual method of sampling CPU in profilers.  For those systems which don't have SIGPROF, it can fall back on sampling the CPU whenever Emacs calls one of the memory allocation functions -- this is called "mem" profiling.

So the "memory" profiles shown here don't show memory usage.
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