From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#30364: 26.0.91; thread crash on macos Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 20:39:11 +0200 Message-ID: <83k1v89640.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83k1vbbhvv.fsf@gnu.org> <83inavbg3p.fsf@gnu.org> <83eflic32p.fsf@gnu.org> <83zi469rge.fsf@gnu.org> <83vaeu9mtn.fsf@gnu.org> <83o9km9jr5.fsf@gnu.org> <83inau9hqa.fsf@gnu.org> <83eflhac8i.fsf@gnu.org> <3adcabd2-733e-fabf-7c2e-7032de42f5dd@dancol.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1519065502 13813 195.159.176.226 (19 Feb 2018 18:38:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 18:38:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 30364@debbugs.gnu.org, alan@idiocy.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, npostavs@users.sourceforge.net, npostavs@gmail.com, aaronjensen@gmail.com, schwab@linux-m68k.org To: Daniel Colascione Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 19 19:38:17 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1enqKF-0002er-GC for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Feb 2018 19:38:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51822 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1enqMH-00037k-Ps for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Feb 2018 13:40:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49307) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1enqMB-00037Q-0X for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Feb 2018 13:40:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1enqM7-00073I-28 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Feb 2018 13:40:07 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:43716) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1enqM6-000738-Ux for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Feb 2018 13:40:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1enqM6-00071n-Cr for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Feb 2018 13:40:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 18:40:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 30364 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 30364-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B30364.151906557626978 (code B ref 30364); Mon, 19 Feb 2018 18:40:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 30364) by debbugs.gnu.org; 19 Feb 2018 18:39:36 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51613 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1enqLg-000714-88 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 19 Feb 2018 13:39:36 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:58158) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1enqLf-00070s-B8 for 30364@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 19 Feb 2018 13:39:35 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1enqLW-0006aF-7P for 30364@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 19 Feb 2018 13:39:30 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:36496) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1enqLA-0006Fk-QJ; Mon, 19 Feb 2018 13:39:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2724 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1enqLA-0001hg-7G; Mon, 19 Feb 2018 13:39:04 -0500 In-reply-to: <3adcabd2-733e-fabf-7c2e-7032de42f5dd@dancol.org> (message from Daniel Colascione on Mon, 19 Feb 2018 09:29:49 -0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:143471 Archived-At: > Cc: 30364@debbugs.gnu.org, alan@idiocy.org, npostavs@gmail.com, > npostavs@users.sourceforge.net > From: Daniel Colascione > Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 09:29:49 -0800 > > What about just dedicating a thread to GC? If having several threads with 8MB of stack is asking for trouble, then doing GC in a dedicated thread could be a better solution. But I personally am undecided whether we should go that way as long as threads are used as they are today (read: not used at all, AFAIK). I'd suggest to wait until we see serious packages appear that are based on Lisp threads, because if they never appear, we could declare this experiment as failed, and then a separate GC thread might be just a liability.