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.help Subject: Re: How to debug memory leaks Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2021 14:26:13 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8f819f0993f17fc2f826f385ef1331ce@cryptolab.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="22748"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:t0ZIZGr4o/ChxdIQOqdB4YgvrtU= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 25 19:29:05 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-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 1lPUjA-0005lu-W6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2021 19:29:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57660 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lPUjA-0001uY-0S for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2021 14:29:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43234) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lPUgZ-0000ZX-T0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2021 14:26:25 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:44950) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lPUgX-0006KQ-Ug for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2021 14:26:23 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lPUgV-0002My-7x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2021 19:26:19 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:128573 Archived-At: > Can we leave it at that? Sorry for the thread misdirection, indeed. > It would have been nice to learn how to debug this, It's actually really hard. So the best is to `M-x report-emacs-bug` and contribute as much concrete data as you can. If you use an Emacs built from Git, you can also include `M-x memory-report` as part of the hard data. Stefan