bug#43389: 28.0.50; Emacs memory leaks using hard disk all time

[Jean Louis]

* Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> [2020-11-30 22:10]:
> > From: Trevor Bentley <trevor@trevorbentley.com>
> > Cc: carlos@redhat.com, fweimer@redhat.com, 43389@debbugs.gnu.org,
> >  bugs@gnu.support, dj@redhat.com, michael_heerdegen@web.de
> > Cc: 
> > Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 19:33:38 +0100
> > 
> > Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> > 
> > >> Also note that the (garbage-collect) call is timed now.  318 
> > >> seconds for this one. 
> > > 
> > > And the automatic GCs were much faster? 
> > > 
> > 
> > Automatic GCs were unnoticeable, as before.  Still not sure what 
> > that means.  I think I'll instrument it in C to try to figure out 
> > what is going on.
> 
> I'm stomped by this discrepancy, and feel that I'm missing something
> very basic here...

This issue on helm is closed but looks very similar to what is
happening here and could maybe give related information:

https://github.com/helm/helm/issues/3121

Other issues related to memory leak at helm:
https://github.com/helm/helm/issues?q=memory+leak