From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#8884: closed (Re: bug#8884: wide-int crash) Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:43:51 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4D3AFF8D-3F70-4C2C-A053-49C3FB2C1167@Freenet.DE> <90642F8F-4E64-4EE8-ADEF-4140147845B4@Freenet.DE> <4E9D11DA.7000303@cs.ucla.edu> <23C33A8D-E7C1-49A1-9477-12AC9826BA06@Freenet.DE> <4E9D9D8D.6020306@cs.ucla.edu> <344ABBE3-5E69-44D6-8330-BF200B3FDEAD@Freenet.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1318995851 22769 80.91.229.12 (19 Oct 2011 03:44:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 03:44:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 8884@debbugs.gnu.org, Paul Eggert , Andreas Schwab To: Peter Dyballa Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 19 05:44:06 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RGN4Y-0006nM-Gx for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2011 05:44:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38378 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RGN4X-0007VQ-S7 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:44:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:48020) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RGN4U-0007V4-RR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:44:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RGN4T-00038a-S8 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:44:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:50633) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RGN4T-00038U-P2 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:44:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RGN5R-0001qY-VF for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:45:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 03:45:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 8884 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 8884-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B8884.13189959017086 (code B ref 8884); Wed, 19 Oct 2011 03:45:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 8884) by debbugs.gnu.org; 19 Oct 2011 03:45:01 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RGN5Q-0001q7-TW for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:45:01 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181] helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RGN5O-0001ps-B9 for 8884@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:44:59 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AjgFACJHnk5MCqLO/2dsb2JhbABEpnKBfYEGgW4BAQQBViMFCws0EhQYDSSIE7VEiBsEoSqERQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.69,369,1315195200"; d="scan'208";a="142857208" Original-Received: from 76-10-162-206.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([76.10.162.206]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 18 Oct 2011 23:43:52 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id A4D62660B6; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:43:51 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <344ABBE3-5E69-44D6-8330-BF200B3FDEAD@Freenet.DE> (Peter Dyballa's message of "Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:41:24 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.90 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:45:01 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 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-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:52826 Archived-At: > While I opened too small files I killed the tar-mode buffer, ejected the > disk, created a larger file, attached the disk again, and opened from > freshened dired listing (in my PATH only a gls exists which accepts --dired) > the tar file with v. This produced failures like these: > emacs(84226) malloc: *** mmap(size=2113650688) failed (error code=12) > *** error: can't allocate region > *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug It may simply be due to fragmentation: while there may still be more than 2GB of unused memory, there may not be a single contiguous unused chunk of 2GB. Stefan