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Re: Question about memory usage


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Question about memory usage
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2018 14:54:16 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> I found out what the problem was:
>
> (while t
>   (with-temp-buffer
>     (setq buffer-undo-list nil)
>     (insert "a")
>     (print (length undo-auto--undoably-changed-buffers)
>          #'external-debugging-output)))

Aha!

> The variable undo-auto--undoably-changed-buffers was storing a lot of killed
> buffers.

We could/should probably arrange to scan for dead buffers every time we
add a new buffer to it, or from kill-buffer-hook.


        Stefan



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