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Re: Possible memory corruption problem
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Possible memory corruption problem |
Date: |
Tue, 14 Feb 2006 06:35:09 +0200 |
> From: "Richard M. Stallman" <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 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.
- Possible memory corruption problem, Piet van Oostrum, 2006/02/06
- Re: Possible memory corruption problem, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/02/06
- Re: Possible memory corruption problem, Piet van Oostrum, 2006/02/06
- Re: Possible memory corruption problem, Richard M. Stallman, 2006/02/12
- Re: Possible memory corruption problem,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Possible memory corruption problem, Piet van Oostrum, 2006/02/14
- Re: Possible memory corruption problem, Aidan Kehoe, 2006/02/14
- Re: Possible memory corruption problem, Richard M. Stallman, 2006/02/14
- Re: Possible memory corruption problem, Piet van Oostrum, 2006/02/16
- Re: Possible memory corruption problem, Richard M. Stallman, 2006/02/20
- Re: Possible memory corruption problem, Richard M. Stallman, 2006/02/14