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From: Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net>
To: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: OOM killer hits emacs on thread with 439 messages
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2017 21:12:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wpb49c2a.fsf@len.workgroup> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k274nep4.fsf@tesseract.cs.unb.ca>

Hi David,

actually, this was a false alarm:  I didn't re-test before posting:
Actually it works with emacs -Q and with my full configuration.

Sorry for the noise, Gregor


* David Bremner <david@tethera.net> [2017-04-01; 15:52]:
> Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net> writes:
>
>> Hi, this thread from emacs-devel:
>>
>>  Yest. 10:40 [4/309] Eli Zaretskii, Ken Raeburn, npostavs@users.sourceforge.net, Paul Eggert, Stefan Monnier, Andreas Schwab, Richard Stallman, Lars Ingebrigtsen, Daniel Colascione, Philipp Stephani, Lars Brinkhoff, Perry E. Metzger, Noam Postavsky, Fabrice Popineau, Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas, Simon Leinen, Alp Aker, Ken Brown, Phil Sainty, Yuri Khan, Clément Pit--Claudel, Robert Pluim, Phillip Lord, Alan Mackenzie           Skipping unexec via a big .elc file (attachment inbox signed unread)
>>
>> brought notmuch-emacs to a grinding halt on a system which 
>> otherwise was used far below memory capapilities (8G RAM, 4.5GB
>> swap, AMD64, emacs compiled from source with 64 bit), later the
>> OMM killer got it.
>>
>
> No, that's definitely a bug. Hard to say if it's a bug in emacs or in
> notmuch-emacs. Can you make an mbox out of the thread (e.g. with notmuch
> show --format=mbox thread:whatever) and either put it somewhere or mail
> it to me (if it's below 2M). I'd do it myself but it lokos like I'd need
> to download at least 4 months of archives.
>
> It's always good to specify what version of emacs and what version of
> notmuch you encounter problems with.
>
> d

      reply	other threads:[~2017-04-01 19:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-01 17:11 OOM killer hits emacs on thread with 439 messages Gregor Zattler
2017-04-01 18:52 ` David Bremner
2017-04-01 19:12   ` Gregor Zattler [this message]

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