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bug#43389: 28.0.50; Emacs memory leaks
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#43389: 28.0.50; Emacs memory leaks |
Date: |
Fri, 18 Sep 2020 11:13:05 +0300 |
> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
> Cc: Joshua Branson <jbranso@dismail.de>, 43389@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 09:53:59 +0200
>
> Eli> But if it's due to helm, why doesn't the huge memory usage show in
> the
> Eli> report produced by GC? That report should show all the Lisp object
> Eli> that we allocate and manage, no? Where does helm-ff-cache keeps
> those
> Eli> "candidates"? (And what is this cache, if someone could be kind
> Eli> enough to describe it?)
>
> Itʼs a hash table. It caches directory contents, as far as I can tell.
Then its memory usage should be part of the GC report, no?
I guess, if this helm feature is really the culprit, then the growth
of memory footprint is not due to the hash-table itself, but to
something else, which is not a Lisp object and gets allocated via
direct calls to malloc or something?
- bug#43389: 28.0.50; Emacs memory leaks, (continued)
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- bug#43389: 28.0.50; Emacs memory leaks, Russell Adams, 2020/09/15
- bug#43389: 28.0.50; Emacs memory leaks, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/09/15
- bug#43389: 28.0.50; Emacs memory leaks, Russell Adams, 2020/09/15
- bug#43389: 28.0.50; Emacs memory leaks, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/09/16
- bug#43389: 28.0.50; Emacs memory leaks, Russell Adams, 2020/09/17
- bug#43389: 28.0.50; Emacs memory leaks, Joshua Branson, 2020/09/17
- bug#43389: 28.0.50; Emacs memory leaks, Russell Adams, 2020/09/17
- bug#43389: 28.0.50; Emacs memory leaks, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/09/18
- bug#43389: 28.0.50; Emacs memory leaks, Robert Pluim, 2020/09/18
- bug#43389: 28.0.50; Emacs memory leaks,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#43389: 28.0.50; Emacs memory leaks, jbranso, 2020/09/20
- bug#43389: 28.0.50; Emacs memory leaks, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/09/18
bug#43389: 28.0.50; Emacs memory leaks, Thomas Ingram, 2020/09/17