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

[Arthur Miller]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
>> Cc: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>,  fweimer@redhat.com,
>>   43389@debbugs.gnu.org,  dj@redhat.com,  michael_heerdegen@web.de,
>>   trevor@trevorbentley.com,  carlos@redhat.com
>> Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2020 18:29:40 +0100
>> 
>> For me it happends like really, really fast. Things work normally, and
>> then suddenly everythign freezes, and after first freeze, it takes for
>> every to see result of any keypress. For example video in Firefox gets
>> slow down to like a frame per minut or so; I can see that system is
>> alive, but it is impossible to type something like (garbage-collect) and
>> see the result; I would be sitting here for a day :-). 
>
> That doesn't sound like a memory problem to me.
Ok; acknowledged; any idea what it could be? I have attached you a
syslog from one crash point, you can see Emacs is using almost 8gig or
RAM, but I have 32, so there is plenty of unused RAM over. Mayve Emacs
internal book keeping of memory? Number of pages? I have no idea myself,
sorry if I am not so helpful.