Re: Emacs `hangs' when doing `replace-string' in 46 MB file

[Christian Schlauer]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> It sounds like you got into an error loop.
> If you can try it under a debugger with a breakpoint
> at Fsignal, you might find more useful info.

I'm afraid I can't -- I don't have a development environment.

But I was able to reproduce the hanging by copying the following line
a little more than 800000 times:

0,643680        0,000139        -0,000458       0,000000        1,000000

Then I ran `M-x replace-string RET , RET .', and went home. On the
next morning (that is, more than 14 hours later), Emacs was still
running, but I could only see the frame borders, the frame contents
wasn't `redrawn' after logging in again. I checked the Windows task
manager: Emacs consumed about 180 MB of memory, had used 2 h 28 min
CPU time, and the CPU load was between 0 % and 13 %. But this time,
there was no frame flashing or beeping.

Maybe someone can reproduce this under GNU/Linux? It takes less than 5
minutes to yank the above line 800000 times on a PIII/800 MHz ;-)
-- 
Christian Schlauer