From: Kevin Layer <layer@franz.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: huge files in ~/.emacs.d/auto-save-list/
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 14:47:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20865.1179784068@gemini.franz.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uejl9lww2.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Thanks for reporting, but please provide the necessary details: the
>> OS, the Emacs version, the works (M-x report-emacs-bug RET will do
>> that for you).
emacs 21.3 for sure, perhaps emacs 22 (I've been using it a few months
and I can't remember if any of the big files were in that time
frame). OS: a variety of Linux versions (FC 6, FC 5 for sure).
>> In general, if the garbled files were produced by a session that
>> crashed, that could explain the garbage: after all, Emacs is in deep
>> trouble when it crashes, and your description sounds like Emacs had
>> its memory badly trashed. But I agree that it's a nasty problem that
>> should be tracked down. The problem is, we cannot easily do that
>> without some kind of recipe for reproducing the problem.
Understood.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-21 21:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-21 20:39 huge files in ~/.emacs.d/auto-save-list/ Kevin Layer
2007-05-21 20:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-05-21 21:47 ` Kevin Layer [this message]
2007-05-22 14:52 ` Richard Stallman
2007-05-22 15:06 ` Kevin Layer
2007-05-22 23:10 ` Richard Stallman
2007-05-22 23:26 ` Kevin Layer
2007-05-23 18:56 ` Richard Stallman
2007-05-23 19:33 ` Kevin Layer
2007-05-24 10:55 ` Richard Stallman
2007-05-24 14:43 ` Kevin Layer
2007-05-26 0:19 ` Richard Stallman
2007-05-23 19:42 ` Kevin Layer
2007-05-23 9:32 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-05-23 11:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-05-23 23:45 ` Richard Stallman
2007-05-23 18:56 ` Richard Stallman
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