bug#44666: 28.0.50; malloc-info: Emacs became not responsive, using hard disk all time

[Jean Louis]

Since I wish to find out what is making Emacs slow sometimes, I am
running it with this shell script:

emacs-debug.sh:

#!/bin/bash
## CDPATH I have to unset as otherwise eshell and shell do not work well
unset CDPATH
date >> /home/data1/protected/tmp/emacs-debug
emacs >> /home/data1/protected/tmp/emacs-debug 2>&1

Then if there is non-responsive problem I can do M-x malloc-info

This time computer became totally not responsive:

- using IceWM (rarely happens, almost by rule with EXWM)

- I have not invoked any special function, just small list processing
  where it had 6 elements in total. The non-responsiveness was not
  caused by this function. That is how I say by feeling.

- then I think, by feeling, swapping started or already started during
  my work.

- hardly hardly and with a lot of patience I could invoke M-x
  malloc-info

Fri Nov 13 08:40:17 EAT 2020
Fri Nov 13 19:41:22 EAT 2020
Fri Nov 13 21:51:07 EAT 2020
Fri Nov 13 23:28:16 EAT 2020
Fri Nov 13 23:28:49 EAT 2020
Fri Nov 13 23:41:47 EAT 2020
Fri Nov 13 23:42:35 EAT 2020
Fri Nov 13 23:43:32 EAT 2020
Sat Nov 14 00:22:09 EAT 2020
Sat Nov 14 00:26:32 EAT 2020
Sat Nov 14 11:47:26 EAT 2020
Sat Nov 14 11:59:16 EAT 2020
Sun Nov 15 12:38:28 EAT 2020
<malloc version="1">
<heap nr="0">
<sizes>
                                                                <size from="49" 
to="49" total="49" count="1"/>
  <unsorted from="257" to="257" total="257" count="1"/>
</sizes>
<total type="fast" count="0" size="0"/>
<total type="rest" count="2" size="306"/>
<system type="current" size="11470942208"/>
<system type="max" size="11470942208"/>
<aspace type="total" size="11470942208"/>
<aspace type="mprotect" size="11470942208"/>
</heap>
<heap nr="1">
<sizes>
                                                                <size from="33" 
to="48" total="48" count="1"/>
                                                                <size from="65" 
to="80" total="80" count="1"/>
</sizes>
<total type="fast" count="2" size="128"/>
<total type="rest" count="0" size="0"/>
<system type="current" size="135168"/>
<system type="max" size="135168"/>
<aspace type="total" size="135168"/>
<aspace type="mprotect" size="135168"/>
</heap>
<heap nr="2">
<sizes>
                                                                <size from="33" 
to="48" total="48" count="1"/>
                                                                <size from="65" 
to="80" total="80" count="1"/>
</sizes>
<total type="fast" count="2" size="128"/>
<total type="rest" count="0" size="0"/>
<system type="current" size="135168"/>
<system type="max" size="135168"/>
<aspace type="total" size="135168"/>
<aspace type="mprotect" size="135168"/>
</heap>
<heap nr="3">
<sizes>
                                                                <size from="33" 
to="48" total="48" count="1"/>
                                                                <size from="65" 
to="80" total="80" count="1"/>
                                                                <size from="33" 
to="33" total="33" count="1"/>
</sizes>
<total type="fast" count="2" size="128"/>
<total type="rest" count="1" size="33"/>
<system type="current" size="135168"/>
<system type="max" size="135168"/>
<aspace type="total" size="135168"/>
<aspace type="mprotect" size="135168"/>
</heap>
<heap nr="4">
<sizes>
                                                                <size from="33" 
to="48" total="48" count="1"/>
                                                                <size from="65" 
to="80" total="80" count="1"/>
</sizes>
<total type="fast" count="2" size="128"/>
<total type="rest" count="0" size="0"/>
<system type="current" size="135168"/>
<system type="max" size="135168"/>
<aspace type="total" size="135168"/>
<aspace type="mprotect" size="135168"/>
</heap>
<heap nr="5">
<sizes>
                                                                <size from="33" 
to="48" total="48" count="1"/>
                                                                <size from="65" 
to="80" total="80" count="1"/>
  <unsorted from="2449" to="2449" total="2449" count="1"/>
</sizes>
<total type="fast" count="2" size="128"/>
<total type="rest" count="1" size="2449"/>
<system type="current" size="135168"/>
<system type="max" size="135168"/>
<aspace type="total" size="135168"/>
<aspace type="mprotect" size="135168"/>
</heap>
<heap nr="6">
<sizes>
                                                                <size from="33" 
to="48" total="48" count="1"/>
                                                                <size from="65" 
to="80" total="80" count="1"/>
</sizes>
<total type="fast" count="2" size="128"/>
<total type="rest" count="0" size="0"/>
<system type="current" size="135168"/>
<system type="max" size="135168"/>
<aspace type="total" size="135168"/>
<aspace type="mprotect" size="135168"/>
</heap>
<heap nr="7">
<sizes>
                                                                <size from="17" 
to="32" total="864" count="27"/>
                                                                <size from="33" 
to="48" total="384" count="8"/>
                                                                <size from="65" 
to="80" total="160" count="2"/>
                                                                <size from="97" 
to="112" total="336" count="3"/>
</sizes>
<total type="fast" count="40" size="1744"/>
<total type="rest" count="0" size="0"/>
<system type="current" size="139264"/>
<system type="max" size="139264"/>
<aspace type="total" size="139264"/>
<aspace type="mprotect" size="139264"/>
</heap>
<heap nr="8">
<sizes>
                                                                <size from="17" 
to="32" total="832" count="26"/>
                                                                <size from="33" 
to="48" total="240" count="5"/>
                                                                <size from="65" 
to="80" total="160" count="2"/>
                                                                <size from="97" 
to="112" total="112" count="1"/>
                                                                <size 
from="113" to="128" total="128" count="1"/>
                                                                <size from="49" 
to="49" total="49" count="1"/>
                                                                <size from="65" 
to="65" total="65" count="1"/>
                                                                <size 
from="145" to="145" total="145" count="1"/>
                                                                <size 
from="193" to="193" total="193" count="1"/>
                                                                <size 
from="449" to="449" total="449" count="1"/>
  <unsorted from="2961" to="2961" total="2961" count="1"/>
</sizes>
<total type="fast" count="35" size="1472"/>
<total type="rest" count="6" size="3862"/>
<system type="current" size="139264"/>
<system type="max" size="139264"/>
<aspace type="total" size="139264"/>
<aspace type="mprotect" size="139264"/>
</heap>
<heap nr="9">
<sizes>
</sizes>
<total type="fast" count="0" size="0"/>
<total type="rest" count="0" size="0"/>
<system type="current" size="135168"/>
<system type="max" size="135168"/>
<aspace type="total" size="135168"/>
<aspace type="mprotect" size="135168"/>
</heap>
<total type="fast" count="87" size="3984"/>
<total type="rest" count="10" size="6650"/>
<total type="mmap" count="2" size="5341184"/>
<system type="current" size="11472166912"/>
<system type="max" size="11472166912"/>
<aspace type="total" size="11472166912"/>
<aspace type="mprotect" size="11472166912"/>
</malloc>




In GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, cairo version 
1.14.8, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2020-11-14 built on protected.rcdrun.com
Repository revision: 31f94e4b1c3dc201646ec436d3e2c477f784ed21
Repository branch: master
System Description: Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre

Configured using:
 'configure --prefix=/package/text/emacs-2020-11-14 --with-modules
 --with-x-toolkit=lucid'

Configured features:
XAW3D XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG CAIRO SOUND GPM DBUS GSETTINGS GLIB
NOTIFY INOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE HARFBUZZ M17N_FLT LIBOTF ZLIB
TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS LUCID X11 XDBE XIM MODULES THREADS JSON PDUMPER
LCMS2

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  gpm-mouse-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  global-eldoc-mode: t
  eldoc-mode: t
  electric-indent-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Load-path shadows:
None found.

Features:
(shadow sort hashcash mail-extr emacsbug message rmc puny dired
dired-loaddefs rfc822 mml easymenu mml-sec epa derived epg epg-config
gnus-util rmail rmail-loaddefs auth-source cl-seq eieio eieio-core
cl-macs eieio-loaddefs password-cache json map text-property-search
time-date subr-x seq byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile cconv mm-decode
mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader
cl-loaddefs cl-lib sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util
mail-prsvr mail-utils t-mouse term/linux disp-table tooltip eldoc
electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel term/x-win
x-win term/common-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe
tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode elisp-mode lisp-mode
prog-mode register page tab-bar menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch timer
select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core
term/tty-colors frame minibuffer cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang
misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms
cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian
cyrillic chinese composite charscript charprop case-table epa-hook
jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray cl-preloaded nadvice button
loaddefs faces cus-face macroexp files window text-properties overlay
sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget
hashtable-print-readable backquote threads dbusbind inotify lcms2
dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting cairo x-toolkit
x multi-tty make-network-process emacs)

Memory information:
((conses 16 52575 6366)
 (symbols 48 7259 1)
 (strings 32 18937 1368)
 (string-bytes 1 616804)
 (vectors 16 8986)
 (vector-slots 8 116851 8619)
 (floats 8 22 260)
 (intervals 56 196 0)
 (buffers 992 11))

-- 
Thanks,
Jean Louis
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