From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai Grossjohann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fix to long-standing crashes in GC Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 13:42:11 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87k6zfb5gs.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de> References: <40A3BC23.8060000@math.ku.dk> <87brks5e94.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <200405132216.i4DMG7G14599@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084539239 15165 80.91.224.253 (14 May 2004 12:53:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 12:53:59 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri May 14 14:53:50 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BOcCE-0002Cd-00 for ; Fri, 14 May 2004 14:53:50 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BOcCD-0004dk-00 for ; Fri, 14 May 2004 14:53:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BObqx-0003Cf-IB for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 14 May 2004 08:31:51 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BObnv-0002mQ-Ne for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 May 2004 08:28:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BObnN-0002gq-RD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 May 2004 08:28:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.224.249] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BOb4h-0004q6-AP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 May 2004 07:41:59 -0400 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BOb4g-0004Yu-00 for ; Fri, 14 May 2004 13:41:58 +0200 Original-Received: from 213-203-244-156.kunde.vdserver.de ([213.203.244.156]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 14 May 2004 13:41:58 +0200 Original-Received: from kai by 213-203-244-156.kunde.vdserver.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 14 May 2004 13:41:58 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213-203-244-156.kunde.vdserver.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:CHiGHmHctwtEhrY788Y9pbOM+0c= X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:23401 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:23401 Luc Teirlinck writes: > The bug is of course not necessarily in Tramp, but could be in any of > the machinery used by Tramp. I get crashes using Tramp with ssh the > entire time. I have never observed a crash using an external transfer > method, like scp (although I tried), so en/decoding seems a likely > culprit. I get strange error messages about invalid base64 data. Now that I've read the umpteenth explanation of this, the thought was finally triggered in my head. Please see the variable tramp-chunksize, try to set it to 500 to see what happens, and also do what the docstring says. What are your findings? Thanks, Kai