Hi! Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> skribis:
> Since I upgraded to Emacs 27.1, its memory consumption grows without > bounds, to the point that it gets OOM-killed after just a couple of > hours (meaning that it’s used most of the 16G of RAM of my laptop!). > > Does that ring a bell to anyone? I have 50+ ^emacs- packages in my > profile; any clues on what could be the cause before diving further? > > $ guix package -I ^emacs$ > emacs 27.1 out /gnu/store/ipgb6s3phz3n740xlcdzaxnbgvncdh11-emacs-27.1 > $ guix describe > Generacio 157 Sep 10 2020 08:49:21 (nuna) > guix 7090159 > repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git > branch: master > commit: 7090159c23d6345992ab976d71fefeb1583cfcdf Emacs is about to crash :-), so let me share this finding from M-x profiler-report (mem) on a sample of a few minutes: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- - timer-event-handler 805,671,418 87% - apply 804,987,874 87% + helm-ff--cache-mode-refresh 802,103,698 86% + emms-playing-time-display 1,349,461 0% + battery-update-handler 1,109,005 0% + #<compiled 0x1ff1153b5547> 221,094 0% + #<compiled 0x1ff11537c089> 49,632 0% + blink-cursor-start 30,368 0% + auto-revert-buffers 29,480 0% + highlight-symbol-temp-highlight 22,076 0% + mouse-avoidance-fancy 20,440 0% + display-time-event-handler 18,383 0% + show-paren-function 13,464 0% + erc-server-send-ping 7,500 0% jit-lock-force-redisplay 4,136 0% + blink-cursor-timer-function 4,136 0% + nnimap-keepalive 2,400 0% + gnus-demon-run-callback 1,545 0% + isearch-lazy-highlight-start 1,056 0% + timer-activate 306,016 0% + timer-inc-time 191,264 0% + timer-activate-when-idle 92,928 0% + command-execute 100,936,674 10% + erc-server-filter-function 5,178,272 0% + redisplay_internal (C function) 4,988,306 0% --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- It’s Helm eating memory at each timer tick. That’s with: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- emacs-helm-wikipedia 0.0.0-1.126f044 out /gnu/store/iy08rcx4hbravm9k3qlinc4wvklp3pqi-emacs-helm-wikipedia-0.0.0-1.126f044 emacs-helm-swoop 3.0.0 out /gnu/store/qnr6asnk0b360ilx8cnrp35kwrh4fsf7-emacs-helm-swoop-3.0.0 emacs-helm-shell-history 0.1-1.110d3c3 out /gnu/store/ljgfa72mw8jx6br9khl7idcmrw4i33hc-emacs-helm-shell-history-0.1-1.110d3c3 emacs-helm-make 0.1.0-1.feae8df out /gnu/store/lnizl47zxlj03waficpy7fvfrx1mdqn7-emacs-helm-make-0.1.0-1.feae8df emacs-helm-ls-git 1.9.1-1.76654c7 out /gnu/store/897fkkh4bzpvbd06kf7vxr53hgkk0vfs-emacs-helm-ls-git-1.9.1-1.76654c7 emacs-helm-gtags 1.5.7 out /gnu/store/lhibi05hvvn3zglcx2ii44yw723pfyja-emacs-helm-gtags-1.5.7 emacs-helm 3.6.5 out /gnu/store/ka9lph0hpzaky0sa52zf09469apkhb68-emacs-helm-3.6.5 emacs-helm-system-packages 1.10.1-1.6572340 out /gnu/store/lvkan5dsbcdkvl3y1fjmsgb423nzmmqc-emacs-helm-system-packages-1.10.1-1.6572340 emacs-helm-emms 1.3-3.37e5aa0 out /gnu/store/g06lnxvyqnp9d2yqgfanp69350f7m2yp-emacs-helm-emms-1.3-3.37e5aa0 --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Cc’ing a couple of people who I think use Helm and hopefully have valuable advice to share. :-) Ludo’.
