bug#43406: closed (Helm 3.6.5 on Emacs 27.1 leaks memory)

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regarding Helm 3.6.5 on Emacs 27.1 leaks memory
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> Emacs 27.1 memory consumption grows indefinitely
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> Mon, 14 Sep 2020 21:38:47 +0200
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux)
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> Hello,
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> Since I upgraded to Emacs 27.1, its memory consumption grows without
> bounds, to the point that it gets OOM-killed after just a couple of
> hours (meaning that it’s used most of the 16G of RAM of my laptop!).
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> Does that ring a bell to anyone?  I have 50+ ^emacs- packages in my
> profile; any clues on what could be the cause before diving further?
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> $ guix package -I ^emacs$
> emacs   27.1    out     /gnu/store/ipgb6s3phz3n740xlcdzaxnbgvncdh11-emacs-27.1
> $ guix describe
> Generacio 157   Sep 10 2020 08:49:21    (nuna)
>   guix 7090159
>     repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
>     branch: master
>     commit: 7090159c23d6345992ab976d71fefeb1583cfcdf
> $ uname -rm
> 5.8.8-gnu x86_64
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> Ludo’.
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> Re: control message for bug #43406
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> Fri, 18 Sep 2020 10:23:06 +0200
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux)
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> Hello!
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> Joshua Branson <jbranso@dismail.de> skribis:
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> > I do think it has to do with helm.  I can confirm that disabling
> > helm-ff-cache with (setq helm-ff-keep-cached-candidates nil) really did
> > the trick.
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> Same here.  A couple of days later, I can confirm that my Emacs has
> become sane again.
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> Closing!
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> Ludo’.
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