Dear Eli and Mitsuharu, Please let me know if there is anything else I can do, test patches or such. again, Emacs just does not ever crash for me after the change mentioned below, a great relief. E On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 10:29 PM, emacs user wrote: > so after running the same emacs session for 72 hours, during which I used > vm many times and emacs used a total of 1.5 CPU hours, I think it is safe > to say that this problem that caused frequent crashes is fixed by the > increase in newlim as specified below. I hope something like this can be > implemented in the emacs development version. Thanks for your help, best, > E > > > On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 8:54 AM, emacs user wrote: > >> I managed to compile your mac port and inserted: >> >> newlim = (re_max_failures * ratio + 200000)*2; >> >> will let you know in a few days if I still see crashes. >> >> >> On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 2:35 AM, YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu < >> mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp> wrote: >> >>> >>>>> On Wed, 04 Dec 2013 10:48:11 +0900, YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu < >>> mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp> said: >>> >>> >>> Having 136 thousand frames during GC is not unheard of. >>> >>> >> (/ 8720000.0 (* 136 1000)) >>> >> 64.11764705882354 >>> >>> >> If each frame consumes more than 64 bytes, then it will use up >>> >> 8720000B stack space. >>> >>> > FWIW, the default compiler for Xcode 4.0.2 on Mac OS X 10.6 with the >>> > -O2 option seems to consume 64 bytes for each mark_object frame: >>> >>> > i686-apple-darwin10-gcc-4.2.1 (GCC) 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) >>> (dot 3) >>> >>> > _mark_object: >>> > 00000000000008a0 pushq %rbp >>> > 00000000000008a1 movq %rsp, %rbp >>> > 00000000000008a4 movq %rbx, 0xffffffffffffffd8(%rbp) >>> > 00000000000008a8 movq %r12, 0xffffffffffffffe0(%rbp) >>> > 00000000000008ac movq %r13, 0xffffffffffffffe8(%rbp) >>> > 00000000000008b0 movq %r14, 0xfffffffffffffff0(%rbp) >>> > 00000000000008b4 movq %r15, 0xfffffffffffffff8(%rbp) >>> > 00000000000008b8 subq $0x40, %rsp >>> >>> > And the one for Xcode 5.0.2 on OS X 10.9 with -O4 does 24 bytes: >>> >>> > Apple LLVM version 5.0 (clang-500.2.79) (based on LLVM 3.3svn) >>> >>> > _mark_object: >>> > 0000000000005c70 pushq %rbp >>> > 0000000000005c71 movq %rsp, %rbp >>> > 0000000000005c74 pushq %r15 >>> > 0000000000005c76 pushq %r14 >>> > 0000000000005c78 pushq %r13 >>> > 0000000000005c7a pushq %r12 >>> > 0000000000005c7c pushq %rbx >>> > 0000000000005c7d subq $0x18, %rsp >>> >>> I forgot to count the pushq instructions. The correct value would be >>> 72 bytes for each mark_object frame in both cases. >>> >>> YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu >>> mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp >>> >> >> >