Re: Debugging emacs memory management

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Dima Kogan <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 12:28:33 -0800
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
>            1.20GB (+ 51.5MB dead) in heap
> 
>    Total in lisp objects: 1.31GB (live 1.25GB, dead 58.0MB)
> 
>    Buffer ralloc memory usage:
>    122 buffers
>    37.6MB total (64.9kB in gaps)
> 
>    ...
> 
> 
> No significant difference is observed when I (garbage-collect). It looks
> like the bulk of the memory is in the "heap". Is this meaningful to
> anybody? Any insight greatly appreciated.

It probably means that the leak is not in Lisp objects, but in memory
allocated via xmalloc for other means.