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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




  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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