From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, storm@cua.dk, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Crash on invalid cons_free_list
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 01:02:59 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871x3q828z.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <858xxzsn6g.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Wed, 14 Sep 2005 17:07:19 +0200")
>> The crash happens when cons encounters invalid data in the free list.
>> However, the bug occurred earlier, when the data became invalid.
>
> I find that significantly lowering gc-cons-threshold helps a lot in
> triggering such errors more often and making them occur somewhat
> closer to their origin.
>From my experience, quite contrary: for a half year I got no crashes
with a low value of gc-cons-threshold. But when I increased it to
a big value (80MB) I immediately got a cons_free_list related crash.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-15 22:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-13 14:23 Crash on invalid cons_free_list Chong Yidong
2005-09-13 12:52 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-09-13 18:03 ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-09-14 14:06 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-09-14 15:07 ` David Kastrup
2005-09-15 12:59 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-09-15 22:02 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
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