Re: Debugging emacs memory management

[Florian Weimer]

* Dima Kogan:

> I'm running emacs snapshots from the latest git, usually as a
> long-running daemon. For a few months now I've had to restart my emacs
> session every week or so because it eats all my RAM, and cycling emacs
> is the only way to get the RAM back.

For discovering incorrectly retained GCed objects, I used this patch,
which adds a `garbage-collect-dump' function:

<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2004-09/msg00951.html>

However, the leak in question was a native memory allocation, so I had
to use a different kind of allocation tracking:

<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2004-09/msg00983.html>

It probably won't work on current systems due to frame pointer
omission.