From: Stephen Berman <Stephen.Berman@gmx.net>
Subject: 50MB large auto-save file after Emacs crash
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 08:27:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mzj2uevb.fsf@escher.local.home> (raw)
A few weeks ago, while using a current CVS build, Emacs suddenly
crashed and vanished without a trace. At the moment of the crash I
was using Gnus and scrolling an article buffer with the mouse wheel.
Since I was not running under gdb, I couldn't retrieve a backtrace or
anything else to make a useful bug report. The only remarkable
remnant was the auto-save file: it was 50 megabytes big and glancing
through it, it looked like it contained (at least) the entire buffer
history of the session prior to the crash, in a combination of plain
text and binary or byte-code; perhaps a resident memory dump? I've
never seen this before and it has not recurred since then (I've also
cvs upped more than once in the mean time), but I wanted to mention
it, in case it rings a bell for anyone.
Steve Berman
Currently
In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.7 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.8.7)
of 2005-12-09 on escher
X server distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.60802000
configured using `configure '--with-x-toolkit=gtk''
next reply other threads:[~2005-12-16 7:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-16 7:27 Stephen Berman [this message]
2005-12-16 8:43 ` 50MB large auto-save file after Emacs crash Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-16 15:28 ` Stephen Berman
2005-12-16 20:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-16 22:26 ` Stephen Berman
2005-12-17 7:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
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