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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: memory leaks
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2020 16:14:36 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvh7s1780o.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3a6xugyba.fsf@leonis4.robolove.meer.net

> The problem is that there is nothing to report except that the RSS is
> growing unreasonably.  In normal operation with all my packages loaded
> emacs wouldn't go beyond around 500M RSS even when running for a week.

The `garbage-collect` command actually can return info about the current
Lisp heap use.  The `memory-usage` package can display it in a more
user-friendly format.

That can be very useful to see if those 500MB belong to the Lisp heap or
to ... something else (typically libraries, like those of the GUI or
those used to display images).


        Stefan




  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-09-13 20:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-20  7:23 memory leaks Madhu
2019-09-20  8:00 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-09-20  8:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]   ` <mailman.572.1568967069.2190.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2019-09-20  8:31     ` Madhu
2019-09-20  9:21       ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]         ` <mailman.578.1568971399.2190.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2020-09-12 13:02           ` Madhu
2020-09-12 13:39             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-12 13:55               ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-09-12 14:09                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-12 19:14               ` Igor Sosa Mayor
2020-09-12 19:26                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-12 19:28                   ` Igor Sosa Mayor
2020-09-13  2:30                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-13  3:17                   ` Madhu
2020-09-13 14:14                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-21  9:28                       ` Madhu
2020-09-13 20:14                     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2020-09-14 10:06                       ` Madhu
2020-11-09 17:50                         ` Madhu
2022-03-04 11:32                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-06 10:59                             ` Madhu
2022-03-06 11:15                               ` Eli Zaretskii
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-11-10  1:24 Madhu
2020-11-10 15:16 ` Eli Zaretskii

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