From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to debug memory leaks Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2021 21:15:21 +0100 Message-ID: <87h7kzng6e.fsf@zoho.eu> References: Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="29518"; 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:Kdwh+0TyHgMdUY7Pg0PbrzR7N3s= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 25 21:16:10 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 1lPWOn-0007Y4-CH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2021 21:16:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36248 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lPWOm-0004U2-CG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2021 16:16:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56328) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lPWOC-0004Tm-Vp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2021 16:15:33 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:35128) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lPWOB-0003Eh-Ar for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2021 16:15:32 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lPWO9-0006ad-6r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2021 21:15:29 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never 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:128578 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier wrote: >> 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). In so many words - yes. :) -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal