Subject: Re: bug#43876: Emacs uses excessive memory

From: Naveed Chehrazi <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2020 21:20:16 -0500

Hi Eli,

Here is the buffer that was generated after executing report-emacs-bug. I
will do what you asked and will report back when it happens again.

Many thanks,

Naveed

From: Naveed <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Subject: 27.1; excessiveMemoryUsage
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In GNU Emacs 27.1 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.30,
cairo version 1.15.10)
 of 2020-08-26 built on lgw01-amd64-030
Repository revision: a2fc5f02361a34ff7322032ce027c8bc4cc3b25a
Repository branch: master
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On Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 1:42 AM Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> wrote:

> > From: Naveed Chehrazi <[email-masked]>
> > Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2020 15:25:55 -0500
> > Cc: [email-masked]
> >
> > I use emacs to write academic papers. This means that the follow
> packages/modes are generally active:
> >
> > * auctex
> > * reftex
> > * flyspell
> > * company
> > * pdf-view (using pdftools)
> > * Ebib
> > * Org
> >
> > I often have 3 to 4 emacs window/frame open for many days. Emacs uses
> normal amount of memory
> > initially but after three or four days, the amount of memory it has used
> has grown enormously. I have not
> > changed the settings of the garbage collector. Its current value is:
> >
> > gc-cons-threshold is a variable defined in ‘C source code’.
> > Its value is 800000
>
> Thanks for the report of your typical usage.  To make this even more
> complete, could you please post the full information collected by
> "M-x report-emacs-bug" about your system and the Emacs configuration?
>
> To make some progress in investigating this and similar reports, it
> could help if you start a fresh session, in which you check the memory
> footprint frequently, say, each hour.  When you see a significant
> increase in the memory usage, try to remember what you did since the
> last checkpoint, and report this information here.
>
> TIA
>