Re: Substantially higher RAM consumption since 2 weeks ago

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Jose A. Ortega Ruiz" <jao@gnu.org>
> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2022 17:11:33 +0100
> 
> I use emacs master compiled regularly (every couple of days or so), in
> X11 with no-toolkit, in a debian sid box.  I use it for long stretches
> of time and with lots of packages, so its memory footprint is not low.
> 
> Up to two weeks ago or so, my emacs process would typically have an RSS
> of around 600-800Mb after a couple of days of continous use.  Starting
> around that time, without having changed my usage patterns, memory
> consumption is regularly around 5 times higher: for instance, right now
> my emacs uptime is 2 days and its RSS is 3Gb.  I've also noticed that
> while previously memory would peak relatively quickly (in a few hours)
> to those 800Mb, and stay around there for days of countinuous use, with
> more recent emacs RSS just keeps increasing, a Gb a day or so.

Please try bisecting to find the commit which caused this.

And in general, this should be reported as a bug, not here.

Thanks.