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: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  fweimer@redhat.com,
>>   43389@debbugs.gnu.org,  bugs@gnu.support,  dj@redhat.com,
>>   michael_heerdegen@web.de,  trevor@trevorbentley.com,  carlos@redhat.com
>> Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2020 20:59:21 +0100
>> 
>> How hard/possible is to use this tool in Emacs:
>> 
>> https://gperftools.github.io/gperftools/heapprofile.html
>
> AFAIU, this cannot be used with glibc's malloc, it needs libtcmalloc
> instead.
Oh yes I understand, there is not a chance it would help to run emacs on
tcmalloc instead of standard malloc? If there is by a chance a leak
somewhere in Emacs? ... god forbid of course :-)