Subject: Re: bug#44326: 27.1.50; busy loop in lisp_free_align

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2021 05:28:08 +0100

Aaron Jensen <[email-masked]> writes:

> Some more information that is hopefully helpful.
>
> My Emacs memory usage is currently around 2.5GB.
>
> Lisp Stack trace from busy loop:
>
> (unsigned char *) $2 = 0x00000001003f48c6 “timer-event-handler”
> (unsigned char *) $3 = 0x00000001003f074c “apply”
> (unsigned char *) $4 = 0x00000001191ba690 “gcmh-idle-garbage-collect”
> (unsigned char *) $5 = 0x00000001003ee2fe “garbage-collect”
>
> GC Stats during busy loop. These don't seem to increase, it stays busy
> in lisp_align_free, though with different blocks over time.

Is it always hanging in a `gcmh-idle-garbage-collect'?  Can you
reproduce this problem without using that package?

Also, could you include the output from `M-x report-emacs-bug',
especially the bit that describes your Emacs version and OS version?

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