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

[Jean Louis]

* Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> [2020-11-23 06:35]:
> On 11/19/20 10:16 PM, Jean Louis wrote:
> > * Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> [2020-11-19 17:38]:
> >> I think you should try using the malloc tracing tools pointed to here:
> >>
> >>   https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=43389#158
> > 
> > When running for long time Emacs will crush at certain point of time
> > as my hard disk get full as /tmp is just about 2 gigabytes. I did not
> > understand Carlos how to change the location for files.
>  
> The glibc malloc tracer functionality can be adjusted with environment
> variables.
> 
> Example:
> 
> MTRACE_CTL_VERBOSE=1 MTRACE_CTL_FILE=./ls.mtr LD_PRELOAD=./libmtrace.so ls
> mtrace: writing to ./ls.mtr.350802
> 
> The appended PID helps keep the files distinct (and includes a sequence
> number in the event of conflict).

Alright, thank you.

My session started with it.