Re: C-h f now permanently loads ~2MB

[Richard Stallman]

    > I can get a GDB backtrace, but it only tells me what is allocating
    > memory at the moment.  That's normally something legitimate.  That
    > doesn't tell me what has been eating up memory for hours or weeks,
    > or why it was not freed.

    I thought the question was whether you ran out of Lisp address space
    or not.

I am not quite sure what that question means.

The immediate cause of the problem is that malloc fails.
But I don't know whether the memory has been used up with
Lisp objects or not.  I also don't know how much memory
malloc has in blocks that it can't use because they are
the wrong size for the current request.