From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#43389: 28.0.50; Emacs memory leaks Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 11:13:05 +0300 Message-ID: <831riz5wq6.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87r1r5428d.fsf@web.de> <87mu1sry72.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <875z8fc224.fsf@web.de> <20200915175418.GV20869@maokai> <838sda98jm.fsf@gnu.org> <20200915211209.GW20869@maokai> <83pn6l7ozj.fsf@gnu.org> <20200917204704.GA20217@maokai> <87ft7gjc9w.fsf@dismail.de> <83d02j60a9.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="26016"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 43389@debbugs.gnu.org, jbranso@dismail.de To: Robert Pluim Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 18 10:15:38 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-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 1kJBYO-0006cs-UR for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 18 Sep 2020 10:15:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53388 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kJBYN-00012N-Vn for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 18 Sep 2020 04:15:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58072) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kJBWs-0006jw-B3 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Sep 2020 04:14:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:57443) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kJBWr-0003tU-W5 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Sep 2020 04:14:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kJBWr-000764-PA for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Sep 2020 04:14:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 08:14:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 43389 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 43389-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B43389.160041678227190 (code B ref 43389); Fri, 18 Sep 2020 08:14:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 43389) by debbugs.gnu.org; 18 Sep 2020 08:13:02 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40754 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kJBVt-00074P-N2 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 18 Sep 2020 04:13:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:50958) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kJBVs-000740-7H for 43389@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 18 Sep 2020 04:13:00 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:58429) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kJBVl-0003lr-WC; Fri, 18 Sep 2020 04:12:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4144 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kJBVl-00048H-29; Fri, 18 Sep 2020 04:12:53 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Robert Pluim on Fri, 18 Sep 2020 09:53:59 +0200) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:188272 Archived-At: > From: Robert Pluim > Cc: Joshua Branson , 43389@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 09:53:59 +0200 > > Eli> But if it's due to helm, why doesn't the huge memory usage show in the > Eli> report produced by GC? That report should show all the Lisp object > Eli> that we allocate and manage, no? Where does helm-ff-cache keeps those > Eli> "candidates"? (And what is this cache, if someone could be kind > Eli> enough to describe it?) > > Itʼs a hash table. It caches directory contents, as far as I can tell. Then its memory usage should be part of the GC report, no? I guess, if this helm feature is really the culprit, then the growth of memory footprint is not due to the hash-table itself, but to something else, which is not a Lisp object and gets allocated via direct calls to malloc or something?