Re: how do you track down emacs memory leaks?

[Chong Yidong]

"Ami Fischman" <address@hidden> writes:

> Since this thread was about debugging methods, I figured I'd add to it
> the way that I finally found the culprit:
>
> (defun ami-big-var-p (sym)
>   (when (and (boundp sym)
>              (> (length (prin1-to-string (symbol-value sym))) (* 1024 1024)))
>     t))
> (mapatoms '(lambda (sym)
>              (when (ami-big-var-p sym)
>                (message (symbol-name sym)))))
>
> This led me to the insanely large variable and from there it was just
> a matter of tracking down its construction.

Thanks.  Could you write this up into something that can go into
etc/DEBUG?