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: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 16:13:58 +0200 Message-ID: <83lfeoqk7t.fsf@gnu.org> References: <831rgppg3w.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> <83blfls494.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="5864"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: fweimer@redhat.com, 43389@debbugs.gnu.org, dj@redhat.com, carlos@redhat.com, trevor@trevorbentley.com, michael_heerdegen@web.de To: Jean Louis Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 26 15:16:04 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 1kiI44-0001Mx-6g for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2020 15:16:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54832 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kiI43-0001sv-4L for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2020 09:16:03 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57190) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kiI37-0001Np-Lq for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2020 09:15:05 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:57073) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kiI33-0003Fr-NG for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2020 09:15:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kiI33-0005xc-J8 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2020 09:15:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 14:15:01 +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=B43389.160640006622858 (code B ref 43389); Thu, 26 Nov 2020 14:15:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 43389) by debbugs.gnu.org; 26 Nov 2020 14:14:26 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40386 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kiI2U-0005wc-AW for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2020 09:14:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:38738) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kiI2S-0005wQ-HH for 43389@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2020 09:14:24 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:42755) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kiI2M-00031Q-ML; Thu, 26 Nov 2020 09:14:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3185 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kiI2M-0007Em-1p; Thu, 26 Nov 2020 09:14:18 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Jean Louis on Thu, 26 Nov 2020 12:09:32 +0300) 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:194328 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 12:09:32 +0300 > From: Jean Louis > Cc: Carlos O'Donell , trevor@trevorbentley.com, > fweimer@redhat.com, 43389@debbugs.gnu.org, dj@redhat.com, > michael_heerdegen@web.de > > ((uptime "2 days, 18 hours, 35 minutes, 19 seconds") (pid 13339) (garbage ((conses 16 4511014 617524) (symbols 48 86926 23) (strings 32 576134 114546) (string-bytes 1 25198549) (vectors 16 245670) (vector-slots 8 4636183 1560354) (floats 8 1859 18842) (intervals 56 655325 24178) (buffers 992 900))) (buffers-size 200898858) (vsize (vsize 5144252))) > > But what happened after 36 minutes of waiting is that Emacs became > responsive. So I am still running this session and I hope to get > mtrace after the session has finished. > > Before I was not patient longer than maybe 3-5 minutes and I have > aborted Emacs. But now I can see it stabilized after hard work with > memory or whatever it was doing. Swap is 1809 MB and vsize just same > as above. It's still 5GB, which is a fairly large footprint, certainly for a 2-day session. > Observation on "what I was doing when vsize started growing" is > simple, I was just editing email, nothing drastic. I did not do > anything special. Can you describe in more detail how you edit email? Which email package(s) do you do, and what would composing email generally involve? Also, are there any background activities that routinely run in your Emacs sessions? > If you say I should finish session now and send the mtrace, I can do > it. That's for Carlos to say. Thanks for the info.