This is emacs 23.1 on Windows XP. May be the GC is not efficient enough. Sometimes it keeps trying to recollect the memory, and makes Emacs seems dead (no response to keyboard and mouse click). It will become normal after a long time waiting. Best regards. If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger, please include the output from the following gdb commands: `bt full' and `xbacktrace'. If you would like to further debug the crash, please read the file d:/gnu/etc/DEBUG for instructions. In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2009-07-30 on SOFT-MJASON Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 configured using `configure --with-gcc (4.4)' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: CHS value of $XMODIFIERS: nil locale-coding-system: cp936 default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Completion List Minor modes in effect: display-time-mode: t show-paren-mode: t auto-image-file-mode: t recentf-mode: t shell-dirtrack-mode: t yas/global-mode: t global-auto-complete-mode: t tooltip-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t global-auto-composition-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t column-number-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: S I _ S B C M-n M-n M-n M-n M-n SPC 1 0 SPC C-x o C-, C-v C-x o 0 x 3 E d e d i n e f i S C S I _ S 6 C-e SPC C-p C-d C-q C-q C-n C-q 0 x 9 E C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-b C-b 1 0 , SPC 7 , SPC 2 C-a C-SPC C-n M-w C-y C-p C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-d 6 C-f C-f C-d 1 2 C-x C-s { } , C-b C-b S C S I _ M-n M-n M-n X D R C-M-/ C-M-/ 1 0 , SPC 7 , SPC 2 C-a C-SPC C-n M-w C-y C-p C-f C-f C-f M-f M-f M-f 3 2 C-f C-f C-d 2 8 C-f C-f C-d 4 C-x C-s C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-a C-SPC C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n M-w C-y C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p M-% R E A D W R I T E y y y y y y y y y C-x C-s C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-x o M-x d o c - v i M-x M-x r e p o r Recent messages: Replaced 9 occurrences Saving file f:/tmp/cdb_info.c... Wrote f:/tmp/cdb_info.c Quit [2 times] Making completion list... Quit [3 times] call-interactively: Command attempted to use minibuffer while in minibuffer Quit [21 times] Save Error: "Memory exhausted--use C-x s then exit and restart Emacs": d:/gnu/home/yyc/.emacs.d/semanticdb/!drive_f!projects!wireshark!wireshark!epan!dissectors!semantic.cache Making completion list...