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bug#43389: 28.0.50; Emacs memory leaks using hard disk all time


From: Trevor Bentley
Subject: bug#43389: 28.0.50; Emacs memory leaks using hard disk all time
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 18:17:28 +0100

I'll have an mtrace for you from the current experiment (X11 focus leak) tomorrow or Monday. I hope it's the same issue.

Ok, here is my latest memory log and a matching libmtrace:

https://trevorbentley.com/mtrace3/

This capture is unique in three ways:
1) Compared to my other tests, this one did not run emacs-slack and did about half of its leaking from X11 focus events, and the other half drifting upwards during idle. This session has barely done anything.

2) I added a custom (malloc-trim) command, and called it after making my standard memory log. At the end of the log, you can see that after the trim memory usage fell from 4GB to 50MB. Unfortunately, this malloc_trim() might make the libmtrace trace harder to make sense of. But, at least in this case, it meant 99% of the memory could be given back to the OS?

3) I ran the built-in emacs profiler. The profiler memory results are in the log, both in normal and reversed format, with the largest element expanded. I don't know how to interpret it, but it looks like maybe a periodic timer started by helm is responsible for 3+GB of RAM?

Also note that the (garbage-collect) call is timed now. 318 seconds for this one.

-Trevor





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