From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Possible memory corruption problem Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 06:35:09 +0200 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1139891733 23777 80.91.229.2 (14 Feb 2006 04:35:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 04:35:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: piet@cs.uu.nl, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 14 05:35:32 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F8ruV-0001JR-Pj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 05:35:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F8ruU-00062D-VI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 23:35:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F8ruJ-000627-JI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 23:35:19 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F8ruH-00061i-MD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 23:35:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F8ruH-00061f-HE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 23:35:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.17] (helo=gandalf.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1F8ryp-0002gh-37; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 23:39:59 -0500 Original-Received: from nitzan.inter.net.il (nitzan.inter.net.il [192.114.186.20]) by gandalf.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.1-GA) with ESMTP id HWE19050; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 06:35:08 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-83-130-252-37.inter.net.il [83.130.252.37]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id CRY69289 (AUTH halo1); Tue, 14 Feb 2006 06:35:06 +0200 (IST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-reply-to: (rms@gnu.org) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:50509 Archived-At: > From: "Richard M. Stallman" > CC: piet@cs.uu.nl, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 23:40:51 -0500 > > > I have tried to find the common circumstances when this happens and it > > aeems to me that it happens when the machine is low on virtual memory > > (including swap space). > > Emacs should display a warning when the system is low on memory. Does > it? > > Emacs tries to estimate how much memory is available, but that estimate > may not really work. For instance, it never works for me. > The code to estimate available space worked in the 80s on Unix, > but it may need adaptation to the systems of today. It's possible that the existing estimate doesn't work on systems that don't use sbrk. I believe GNU/Linux is one of those systems.