bug#43389: 28.0.50; Emacs memory leaks

[Florian Weimer]

* Eli Zaretskii:

>> From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
>> Cc: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>,  carlos@redhat.com,  43389@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 21:35:54 +0100
>> 
>> * Eli Zaretskii:
>> 
>> > (It would be interesting to see the GC statistics from Florian's
>> > session, btw.)
>> 
>> Is this the value of (garbage-collect)?
>> 
>> ((conses 16 1877807 263442)
>>  (symbols 48 40153 113)
>>  (strings 32 164110 77752)
>>  (string-bytes 1 5874689)
>>  (vectors 16 64666)
>>  (vector-slots 8 1737780 331974)
>>  (floats 8 568 1115)
>>  (intervals 56 163746 19749)
>>  (buffers 1000 1092))
>
> Yes.  "C-h f garbage-collect" will describe the meaning of the
> numbers.  AFAICT, this barely explains 70 MBytes and change of Lisp
> data.  (The "buffers" part excludes buffer text, but you should be
> able to add that by summing the sizes shown by "C-x C-b".)

I get this:

(let ((size 0))
  (dolist (buffer (buffer-list) size)
    (setq size (+ size (buffer-size buffer)))))
⇒ 98249826

So it's not a small number, but still far away from those 800 MiB.

Thanks,
Florian
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