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bug#43389: 28.0.50; Emacs memory leaks
From: |
Jean Louis |
Subject: |
bug#43389: 28.0.50; Emacs memory leaks |
Date: |
Thu, 10 Dec 2020 08:43:56 +0300 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/2.0 (3d08634) (2020-11-07) |
* Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> [2020-12-10 03:51]:
> Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:
>
> > I think we see different symptoms. I don't see any slow-down at all
> > (unless swapping starts, obviously). When I do M-x garbage-collect, it
> > finishes immediately without freeing an significant amount of memory.
>
> I must correct myself. While this all was definitely the case the last
> time I tried to investigate this issue (one or two months ago) the
> garbage-collect statement is not true anymore. I did M-x
> garbage-collect today when the memory was getting short and then Emacs
> froze (in the sense of "didn't respond, even to C-g"), without gkrellm
> reporting much progress, so I killed it (after 20 seconds or so - aeons
> for a computer).
>
> I did not experience a slowdown, however (maybe I've faster RAM?).
One time I waited for 36 minutes and it completed the garbage collection.