bug#2685: marked as done (Emergency (alloc): Warning: past 85% of memory limit)

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From: Laurent GUERBY <laurent@guerby.net>
To: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
Subject: Emergency (alloc): Warning: past 85% of memory limit
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:13:55 +0100
Message-ID: <1237202035.8383.2.camel@localhost>

Hi,

I compiled using GCC 4.3.2 from debian lenny (abi=32):

GNU Emacs 23.0.91.1 (mips64el-unknown-linux-gnu, X toolkit) of
2009-03-15 on gcc51   

When launching emacs (in text mode) I get a *Warnings* window
with the following message:

Emergency (alloc): Warning: past 85% of memory limit

The machine gcc51 has 1GB of RAM so this warning seems surprising.

Sincerely,

Laurent





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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Laurent GUERBY <laurent@guerby.net>
Cc: John Sullivan <johns@fsf.org>, 2685-done@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: Re: Emergency (alloc): Warning: past 85% of memory limit
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 14:46:56 -0400
Message-ID: <87ljop561r.fsf@cyd.mit.edu>

> The problem is that Emacs is not determining the start of the data
> segment properly on MIPS machines.  In src/m/mips.h, we define
> DATA_START as 0x10000000

On further research, I think this is wrong for GNU/Linux.  It was
probably written for other operating systems in mind.  Undefining
DATA_START on GNU/Linux is pretty harmless; as I said, this causes Emacs
to fall back on another heuristic method for determining the start of
the data segment.  (Anyway, this change only affects this particular
platform).  So, I've checked in the change.