From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Marshall Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs slow on dired renaming Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 16:12:24 +0100 Organization: The first against the wall Message-ID: <87sipm35bb.fsf@capuchin.co.uk> References: <871txekiid.fsf@capuchin.co.uk> <87a9c28clz.fsf@capuchin.co.uk> <87lhvl6xog.fsf@capuchin.co.uk> <8761motb26.fsf@capuchin.co.uk> <87zjk0rq15.fsf@capuchin.co.uk> <87r45crm6k.fsf@capuchin.co.uk> <87ha66fx8w.fsf@capuchin.co.uk> <87a9byfk6d.fsf@capuchin.co.uk> <87fvlmq1pk.fsf@capuchin.co.uk> Reply-To: robert@capuchin.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1397057125 2121 80.91.229.3 (9 Apr 2014 15:25:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 15:25:25 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 09 17:25:20 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WXuNL-0000Kh-7b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Apr 2014 17:25:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46709 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WXuNK-0000ct-Ls for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Apr 2014 11:25:18 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Trace: individual.net cq6AuUvG1hsfZttryMq9pwrYUqZNBDTuImZbHVqKkC8XlonS8= X-Orig-Path: faure.capuchin.co.uk!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:HqC5Ipc1ifyqxcbDVDA8jSjSBig= sha1:XY2TzaeTPZ9GmHBJP0ygW7ZK7Fk= X-Home-Page: http://rmstar.blogspot.com/ User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:204799 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:97068 Archived-At: On Wed, Apr 09 2014, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> A manual call to garbage-collect returns nil > > Quoting C-h garbage-collect: > > However, if there was overflow in pure space, `garbage-collect' > returns nil, because real GC can't be done. > >> and pure-bytes-used is 88 - > > That indicates that pure space was overflowed. IOW your Emacs build > is broken. You need to rebuild with a larger pure space. > Yes, I updated from bzr and that build gave me the pure-space-overflow-message on startup (which the previous build didn't) so I altered SYSTEM_PURESIZE_EXTRA and things are - so far - looking good! Robert -- La grenouille songe..dans son château d'eau