From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#43389: 28.0.50; Emacs memory leaks using hard disk all time Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 20:15:54 +0200 Message-ID: <83blfek8x1.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83y2j0qb2v.fsf@gnu.org> <83zh3czbvz.fsf@gnu.org> <83blfovzxz.fsf@gnu.org> <87o8jnu5f2.fsf@mail.trevorbentley.com> <83o8jmu49z.fsf@gnu.org> <522e3cc0-c563-3308-7264-1b09cd5e264b@redhat.com> <87o8jltglg.fsf@mail.trevorbentley.com> <43b8f55b-d201-76e0-2d19-d97dec8798aa@redhat.com> <87im9ttfeg.fsf@mail.trevorbentley.com> <399d4681-940a-c782-b91e-750e62840cb6@redhat.com> <83pn40qkyb.fsf@gnu.org> <418751f6-41be-a5e2-908a-ea4196d5fb9b@redhat.com> <83y2inq2sp.fsf@gnu.org> <60253612-49f0-a1aa-b9e6-39cfef8d62b5@redhat.com> <83mtz3p7qy.fsf@gnu.org> <83lfenp78f.fsf@gnu.org> <83h7pbp5wh.fsf@gnu.org> <83v9dpn9em.fsf@gnu.org> <87sg8ts766.fsf@mail.trevorbentley.com> <87pn3usr13.fsf@mail.trevorbentley.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="15826"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: fweimer@redhat.com, 43389@debbugs.gnu.org, bugs@gnu.support, dj@redhat.com, carlos@redhat.com, michael_heerdegen@web.de To: Trevor Bentley Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 30 19:17:10 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kjnjZ-00040O-T1 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 30 Nov 2020 19:17:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43128 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kjnjY-00036I-Qp for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 30 Nov 2020 13:17:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59344) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kjnjS-000368-4k for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Nov 2020 13:17:02 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:45075) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kjnjR-00013g-TP for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Nov 2020 13:17:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kjnjR-00074J-NK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Nov 2020 13:17:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 18:17:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 43389 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 43389-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B43389.160676017927114 (code B ref 43389); Mon, 30 Nov 2020 18:17:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 43389) by debbugs.gnu.org; 30 Nov 2020 18:16:19 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56620 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kjnif-000736-Ex for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 30 Nov 2020 13:16:19 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:40912) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kjnid-00072q-4u for 43389@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 30 Nov 2020 13:16:12 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:33840) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kjniW-0000z1-Qm; Mon, 30 Nov 2020 13:16:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2116 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kjniV-0001pB-72; Mon, 30 Nov 2020 13:16:03 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87pn3usr13.fsf@mail.trevorbentley.com> (message from Trevor Bentley on Mon, 30 Nov 2020 18:17:28 +0100) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:194666 Archived-At: > From: Trevor Bentley > Cc: fweimer@redhat.com, 43389@debbugs.gnu.org, bugs@gnu.support, > dj@redhat.com, michael_heerdegen@web.de > Cc: > Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 18:17:28 +0100 > > 3) I ran the built-in emacs profiler. The profiler memory > results are in the log Thanks, but this doesn't really measure memory usage. It just uses malloc calls as a poor man's replacement for SIGPROF signal, so the results show a kind of CPU profile, not memory profile. > I don't know how to interpret it, but it looks like maybe a > periodic timer started by helm is responsible for 3+GB of RAM? More like it's responsible for most of the CPU activity. > Also note that the (garbage-collect) call is timed now. 318 > seconds for this one. And the automatic GCs were much faster? Thanks. I hope Carlos will be able to give some hints based on your data.