Re: Memory usage report

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> Eli's question boils down to: can you point to a concrete case where
> this would have been useful?

Yes.  :-)  

https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/iuott9/emacs_memory_leak_debugging/

Relevant quote:

> Over in #guix irc, the guix people seemed to think it was a memory leak with
> helm.
>
> I was watching my emacs consume about 0.1% more system memory every 2 or 3
> seconds. Setting
>
> (setq helm-ff-keep-cached-candidates nil)
>
> Seemed to make the problem go away.

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