From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Layer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: huge files in ~/.emacs.d/auto-save-list/ Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 12:42:36 -0700 Message-ID: <19160.1179949356@gemini.franz.com> References: <17763.1179779953@gemini.franz.com> <20566.1179846367@gemini.franz.com> <9829.1179876386@gemini.franz.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1179949389 20154 80.91.229.12 (23 May 2007 19:43:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 19:43:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 23 21:43:00 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Hqwja-0007cT-JV for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 May 2007 21:42:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hqwjc-0008KZ-F8 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 May 2007 15:43:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HqwjJ-00088O-6g for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 May 2007 15:42:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HqwjH-00086T-9Q for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 May 2007 15:42:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HqwjH-00086H-2i for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 May 2007 15:42:39 -0400 Original-Received: from fw1.franz.com ([206.169.112.54] helo=gemini.franz.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HqwjF-0002ed-OZ; Wed, 23 May 2007 15:42:38 -0400 Original-Received: from gemini.franz.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gemini.franz.com (8.13.8/8.13.7) with ESMTP id l4NJgaeA019162; Wed, 23 May 2007 12:42:36 -0700 In-reply-to: Comments: In-reply-to Richard Stallman message dated "Wed, 23 May 2007 14:56:41 -0400." X-Mailer: MH-E 8.0.3; nmh 1.1; GNU Emacs 22.0.96 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:15743 Archived-At: I can also say that the last bogus file in that directory definitely was written long after the last emacs crash I've had. The bad file was written 4/28 and it's been months since I've had an emacs crash at home. (At work, I switched to emacs 22, and haven't had a crash since that switch. At home, I was sort of waiting to see if I had any more crashes on 21.4, and I had not.) Now, it very well could be related to out of memory situations. I remember at work noticing that on a few occasions my emacs had grown quite large (150mb, according to top). I even remember seeing the (new?) message from emacs when you undo something in a buffer larger than the threshold for storing undo info. I'll keep an eye on this, to see if those files appear near these types of events. I'm also running a nightly cron job to tell me when the directory gets big.