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: 50MB large auto-save file after Emacs crash Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 22:24:40 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87mzj2uevb.fsf@escher.local.home> <87zmn13vuf.fsf@escher.local.home> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1134770647 16326 80.91.229.2 (16 Dec 2005 22:04:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 22:04:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 16 23:03:56 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EnNet-000414-6H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 23:02:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EnNfa-0003rA-NM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 17:03:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EnM8u-0002Ba-VJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 15:25:29 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EnM8r-0002Am-Aj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 15:25:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EnM8r-0002Ab-19 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 15:25:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.66] (helo=romy.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EnMBK-0002Oz-FH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 15:27:58 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-64-110.inter.net.il [80.230.64.110]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.2-GA) with ESMTP id DER01777 (AUTH halo1); Fri, 16 Dec 2005 22:24:38 +0200 (IST) Original-To: Stephen Berman In-reply-to: <87zmn13vuf.fsf@escher.local.home> (message from Stephen Berman on Fri, 16 Dec 2005 16:28:08 +0100) 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:47903 Archived-At: > From: Stephen Berman > Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 16:28:08 +0100 > > > Also, please make sure your shell setup doesn't disable core dumps > > (with a ulimit command). > > My system is in fact set up not to create core files So it is plausible that Emacs crashed, but didn't leave a core dump file behind. Too bad. > but I can change that. Can you recommend a reasonable maximum size? I recommend `unlimited'. I'm serious: there's no way to know in advance how large will be the memory footprint of your Emacs (or any other program, for that matter) when it crashes. The core file that describes a crash is worth its every byte in gold. > > In general, if Emacs crashes, it should leave behind a core dump file; > > if core files are not disabled, then it's possible that Emacs was > > either killed by the OS (thus the advice to look in SYSLOG), or it > > simply exited. > > It appears in this case to be the latter. No, I don't think so: if it exited, it would have saved the files, not leave auto-save files. I think it crashed. > FWIW, I still have the > auto-save file, but even compressed it's bigger than 13MB, so I don't > want to attach it. Anyway, I doubt it's useful, but just to get an > idea of it, I've attached the first 95 lines. What was the name of the file?