From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Any way of dumping strings? Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2021 14:38:55 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87zgw8b3n9.fsf@telefonica.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="17743"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?windows-1252?Q?=D3scar?= Fuentes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 02 20:39:53 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1loVmT-0004Nf-BM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 02 Jun 2021 20:39:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41168 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1loVmS-0006ph-C0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 02 Jun 2021 14:39:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58256) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1loVlc-00067T-5I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jun 2021 14:39:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.25.50]:13655) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1loVla-0005Xb-HL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jun 2021 14:38:59 -0400 Original-Received: from pmg3.iro.umontreal.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pmg3.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 88CD444159E; Wed, 2 Jun 2021 14:38:57 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (unknown [172.31.2.1]) by pmg3.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 5CD09441596; Wed, 2 Jun 2021 14:38:56 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=iro.umontreal.ca; s=mail; t=1622659136; bh=YnVbA9TvLnfOG/1QIpr5TJPNiBBe0XOlgRk749xcIzo=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=Y1SPSv0CUyhHityLnRg1nMbVwhlevPQTbjVg0tFxuLMu5dmbvxTFMlER7Q2WmNsz5 2WM4rcyITEKpq8Rah0UHTa/YA+MFYhTeenqn5Z51KKxAj3U/gkJtYdb1g+e2NLu46O 9vA9Dboj5lbAl9C6XqlxxdplLKhm+J2M9+d6o0neFAU0Omf6nvNZuscU6VebZf/k0A 8b/zchekVoXXNCL1C89MVZO2UheRFHbhZ1QAZ3oLWJinUmys6lV8GTOi3d2/s0D9sB uE9lA1bQjaLKiWNd6WcMGXWsESgQkaG+TGvh8IoKviiuzSFrTwSXqNSNWDTcwGi7yi Uf0gErg6zodpw== Original-Received: from alfajor (69-196-163-239.dsl.teksavvy.com [69.196.163.239]) by mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2E8A51200E2; Wed, 2 Jun 2021 14:38:56 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87zgw8b3n9.fsf@telefonica.net> (=?windows-1252?Q?=22=D3scar?= Fuentes"'s message of "Wed, 02 Jun 2021 19:03:06 +0200") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=132.204.25.50; envelope-from=monnier@iro.umontreal.ca; helo=mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca X-Spam_score_int: -42 X-Spam_score: -4.3 X-Spam_bar: ---- X-Spam_report: (-4.3 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:270321 Archived-At: > 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