You can try this code snippet to detect large variables: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-12/msg00770.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/htm

You can try this code snippet to detect large variables: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-12/msg00770.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-12/msg00... It is a major attraction of Emacs that its inspection facilities can be easily used to automatically analyze such issues. My expectation of Emacs is that I never have to restart it. If it crashes or fails to reliably reclaim memory, please consider filing an issue with M-x report-emacs-bug RET.