bug#43389: 28.0.50; Emacs memory leaks

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2020 20:56:31 +0100
> From: Russell Adams <RLAdams@AdamsInfoServ.Com>
> Cc: dj@redhat.com, fweimer@redhat.com, trevor@trevorbentley.com,
>       michael_heerdegen@web.de, carlos@redhat.com, 43389@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> I find particularly of interest the growth of Emacs processes while
> idle.
> 
> Yesterday I restarted Emacs and over the next 18 hours I left my
> laptop idle with Emacs as the focused application. My Emacs has grown
> to 3GB and every time I select my Emacs window it will grow by a few
> MB while I watch in htop.

Is there any way to get a trace/record of X events that are delivered
to Emacs during this kind of idleness?  Those events and the timers
are, I think, the only things that are going inside such an idle
session.