Re: How to debug memory leaks

[Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>]

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* edgar <edgarlux@cryptolab.net> [2021-03-25 20:56]:
> From: 	Stefan Monnier
> > > So maybe that memory effects, whatever they are, leaking, plumbing,
> > > I do not observe it now, but who knows...
> > 
> > Call it "excessive memory use".  That term even has the advantage of
> > including a notion of personal judgment (in the term "excessive") which
> > indeed reflects the fact that maybe this is not the result of a bug, but
> > you still find it excessive (and other people may disagree without
> >                                  making your judgment wrong since it's
> > just an opinion).
> > 
> 
> The risk of leaving an unfruitful discussion is to let others think that a
> point has been made which could possibly influence or confuse outsiders and
> have unexpected adverse consequenes.
> 
> May be "management" is a better term, but obviously Stefan has a different
> idea of "leak" (I guess as related to memory injection--I don't know, and
> would not like to add yet another level of needless argument). I did write
> 
>     I think that it is leaking memory
> 
> which implies that I did not know if that was certain. I apologise for any
> misconstrued conclusions from my statement
> 
>     It seems that font leaking is a common issue as well
> 
> I meant that, in general terms, /font leaking has been found by other users
> to happen as well/. If by the end of:

I have 2 pictures attached on what happens sometimes on my side.

Is that maybe font leaking? It looks like some fonts leaked somewhere
and I don't know where... there is hole somewhere...


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