From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: piet@cs.uu.nl, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Possible memory corruption problem
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 06:35:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uhd72woaq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1F8VW7-0007Ts-Pe@fencepost.gnu.org> (rms@gnu.org)
> From: "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
> CC: piet@cs.uu.nl, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 23:40:51 -0500
>
> > I have tried to find the common circumstances when this happens and it
> > aeems to me that it happens when the machine is low on virtual memory
> > (including swap space).
>
> Emacs should display a warning when the system is low on memory. Does
> it?
>
> Emacs tries to estimate how much memory is available, but that estimate
> may not really work. For instance, it never works for me.
> The code to estimate available space worked in the 80s on Unix,
> but it may need adaptation to the systems of today.
It's possible that the existing estimate doesn't work on systems that
don't use sbrk. I believe GNU/Linux is one of those systems.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-14 4:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-06 15:36 Possible memory corruption problem Piet van Oostrum
2006-02-06 19:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-02-06 22:14 ` Piet van Oostrum
2006-02-13 4:40 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-02-14 4:35 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2006-02-14 7:56 ` Piet van Oostrum
2006-02-14 9:29 ` Aidan Kehoe
2006-02-15 4:39 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-02-16 13:21 ` Piet van Oostrum
2006-02-20 18:42 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-02-14 22:17 ` Richard M. Stallman
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