From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Any way of dumping strings?
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2021 14:38:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv5yywaz8s.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zgw8b3n9.fsf@telefonica.net> ("Óscar Fuentes"'s message of "Wed, 02 Jun 2021 19:03:06 +0200")
> I'm trying to diagnose a memory leak. As it is used Emacs requires more
> memory, an average of a several tens of MB per hour. Right now it is
> using ~1GB and `memory-report' shows:
>
> 207.8 MiB Vectors
> 83.7 MiB Strings
>
> I terminated the previous session after reaching ~2GB with >700MB
> vectors and >300MB strings.
>
> In case the culprit is some package, looking at those strings or vectors
> could be revealing.
>
> Is there a method for dumping or displaying those strings or vectors?
Have you tried the new `memory-report` function?
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-02 18:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-02 17:03 Any way of dumping strings? Óscar Fuentes
2021-06-02 17:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-02 17:54 ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-06-02 18:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-02 18:33 ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-06-02 18:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-02 18:38 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2021-06-02 18:55 ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-06-02 19:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-03 6:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
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