From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#43389: 28.0.50; Emacs memory leaks using hard disk all time Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2020 21:08:35 +0300 Message-ID: References: <83y2j0qb2v.fsf@gnu.org> <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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="16010"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0 (3d08634) (2020-11-07) Cc: fweimer@redhat.com, 43389@debbugs.gnu.org, dj@redhat.com, michael_heerdegen@web.de, Trevor Bentley To: Carlos O'Donell Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 25 19:45:12 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 1khzmx-000420-7t for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2020 19:45:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41484 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1khzmw-0000mI-A3 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2020 13:45:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36754) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1khze7-000417-Pn for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2020 13:36:03 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:53657) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1khze6-0002aK-8i for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2020 13:36:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1khze6-0005gy-4w for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2020 13:36:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Jean Louis Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2020 18:36:02 +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=B43389.160632935621845 (code B ref 43389); Wed, 25 Nov 2020 18:36:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 43389) by debbugs.gnu.org; 25 Nov 2020 18:35:56 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36963 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1khze0-0005gF-04 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2020 13:35:56 -0500 Original-Received: from static.rcdrun.com ([95.85.24.50]:44471) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1khzdy-0005f8-31 for 43389@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2020 13:35:54 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:41.202.241.56]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.2,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by static.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000002C000B.000000005FBEA408.000038E8; Wed, 25 Nov 2020 18:35:52 +0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <522e3cc0-c563-3308-7264-1b09cd5e264b@redhat.com> 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:194218 Archived-At: * Carlos O'Donell [2020-11-25 20:45]: > With glibc-malloc-trace-utils you can try to do that with: > > LD_PRELOAD=libmtrace.so \ > MTRACE_CTL_FILE=/home/user/app.mtr \ > MTRACE_CTL_BACKTRACE=1 \ > ./app > > This will use libgcc's unwinder to get a copy of the malloc caller > address and then we'll have to decode that based on a > /proc/self/maps. I will also try that in the next session. One problem I have here is that since I run this session I have not get any problem. My uptime is over 2 days, I have not changed my habbits of work within Emacs and my swap remains under 200 MB and only 10% memory used by Emacs, normally 80-90% Almost by the rule I could not run longer than 1 day until I would get swap of about 3 GB - 4 GB and not responsive Emacs. Can it be that libmtrace.so could prevent something happening what is normally happening?