bug#43876: Emacs uses excessive memory

[Naveed Chehrazi]

Ok. I will let you know if I experience this issue with that version.

Thanks,

Naveed

On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 10:45 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

On January 25, 2021 5:53:30 AM GMT+02:00, Naveed Chehrazi <nchehrazi@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey, I just experienced another instance of the bug. I just sent you
> the
> output of M-x report-emacs-bug.
>
> Here is the requested information that was in the buffer generated by
> M-x
> report-emacs-bug. I experience the same problem on my ubuntu machine.
>
> In GNU Emacs 27.1 (build 1, x86_64-apple-darwin18.7.0, Carbon Version
> 158
> AppKit 1671.6)
>  of 2020-11-21 built on Traviss-Mac.local
> Repository revision: 2003451b61ad44108eedae74fc34b4d7b47d5756
> Repository branch: HEAD
> Windowing system distributor 'Apple Inc.', version 10.15.7

 Can you try the latest emacs-27 branch of the Emacs Git repository?  We recently fixed a bad bug there which would prevent GC from happening under some circumstances, and that indeed could cause the memory footprint grow a lot.