From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
Cc: 43389@debbugs.gnu.org, jbranso@dismail.de
Subject: bug#43389: 28.0.50; Emacs memory leaks
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 11:13:05 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <831riz5wq6.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2eemzy0yw.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Robert Pluim on Fri, 18 Sep 2020 09:53:59 +0200)
> 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?
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Thread overview: 110+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-14 0:43 bug#43389: 28.0.50; Emacs memory leaks Michael Heerdegen
2020-09-14 19:09 ` Juri Linkov
2020-09-15 0:32 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-09-15 17:54 ` Russell Adams
2020-09-15 18:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-15 21:12 ` Russell Adams
2020-09-16 14:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-17 20:47 ` Russell Adams
2020-09-17 21:58 ` Joshua Branson via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-09-17 23:09 ` Russell Adams
2020-09-18 6:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-18 7:53 ` Robert Pluim
2020-09-18 8:13 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-09-20 20:08 ` jbranso--- via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-09-18 8:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-09 20:46 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-09 21:24 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-09 21:51 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 3:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-10 8:22 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-11-10 12:59 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 13:01 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-11-10 13:10 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 13:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-10 13:26 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 14:25 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 15:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-10 17:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-10 18:55 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 15:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-10 16:49 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 17:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-08 1:07 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-12-08 3:24 ` Jose A. Ortega Ruiz
2020-12-08 12:37 ` Russell Adams
2020-12-08 5:13 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-08 16:29 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-12-10 0:50 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-12-10 5:43 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-10 15:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-10 10:25 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 15:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-10 16:41 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-09 22:33 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-10 15:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-10 16:36 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 19:51 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-10 3:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-26 15:42 ` Russell Adams
2020-11-26 16:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-26 16:54 ` Russell Adams
2020-11-26 19:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-27 10:45 ` Russell Adams
2020-11-27 12:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-28 19:56 ` Russell Adams
2020-11-28 20:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-28 21:52 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2020-11-29 3:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-17 20:59 ` Thomas Ingram
2020-10-29 20:17 ` Trevor Bentley
2020-10-30 8:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-11 21:15 ` Trevor Bentley
2020-11-12 14:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-16 20:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-16 20:42 ` Florian Weimer
2020-11-17 15:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-17 16:32 ` Carlos O'Donell
2020-11-17 17:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-17 17:20 ` DJ Delorie
2020-11-17 19:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-17 19:59 ` DJ Delorie
2020-11-17 20:13 ` Florian Weimer
2020-11-17 20:16 ` DJ Delorie
2020-11-17 20:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-17 20:35 ` Florian Weimer
2020-11-17 20:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-17 20:58 ` Florian Weimer
2020-11-17 21:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-18 5:43 ` Carlos O'Donell
2020-11-18 6:09 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-18 8:32 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-11-18 9:01 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-18 16:19 ` Russell Adams
2020-11-18 17:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-19 15:57 ` Carlos O'Donell
2020-11-18 18:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-18 18:27 ` DJ Delorie
2020-11-19 16:08 ` Carlos O'Donell
2020-11-22 20:19 ` Deus Max
2020-11-23 3:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-23 16:45 ` Deus Max
2020-11-23 17:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-17 16:33 ` Florian Weimer
2020-11-17 17:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-17 17:24 ` Florian Weimer
2020-11-17 20:39 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-17 20:57 ` DJ Delorie
2020-11-17 21:45 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-18 15:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-23 18:55 ` Jean Louis
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2020-11-17 20:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-18 21:47 ` Jose A. Ortega Ruiz
2020-11-19 14:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-19 14:34 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-19 16:03 ` Carlos O'Donell
2020-11-19 17:25 ` jao
2020-12-09 19:41 ` Jose A. Ortega Ruiz
2020-12-09 20:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-09 21:04 ` Jose A. Ortega Ruiz
2020-12-11 13:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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