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bug#26952: 25.1; loops eating all memory while yanking big rectangle


From: Noam Postavsky
Subject: bug#26952: 25.1; loops eating all memory while yanking big rectangle
Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 13:18:50 -0400

On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 12:48 PM, John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> FWIW, I too have noticed Emacs 25.2 being quite unstable. For the longest
> time, Emacs 24 would run for months without crashing even once. Now it crashes
> pretty regularly 2-4 times a day. I wonder now if I'm hitting a memory ceiling
> that is triggering the behavior we're describing...

You're on macOS right? This bug and the proposed solution to be
backported only affects GNU/Linux distributions with recent glibc,
AFAIK.
Also, I don't think this bug would trigger crashes, just extreme
system slowness due to swapping.





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