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Re: Memory usage report
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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Re: Memory usage report |
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Fri, 18 Sep 2020 14:59:24 +0200 |
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> That can have significant memory?
>
> Some of them could, yes.
Do you know which ones?
>> I don't think we have to go that far to be useful. Reporting that the
>> image cache takes foo GB will help somebody.
>
> Why would an image cache take that much? we flush it from time to
> time, and I have difficulty believing that all those users reporting
> large memory footprints load thousands of images every hour of every
> day.
It is unlikely that "all those users" use that many images, but some
may. (As you no doubt remember, calling `image-size' in a loop will
kill Emacs with an out of memory fault.)
>> > Which variables did you have in mind in this context? Can you show an
>> > example?
>>
>> It'd just traverse all the variables and compute the "largest" ones.
>
> Again, they are included in the GC report. So what do you expect to
> see?
I expect to see what variables take "all that size"? I'm not sure what
you're asking here.
> So, while a more detailed report might be nice to have, I don't see
> how it would help to diagnose "leaks" of the kind we are discussing
> now on the bug list.
I am not talking about any bug report in particular. If I were, that is
where I would have posted this.
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