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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 13:42:39 -0400 |
On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 1:29 PM, Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org> wrote:
>>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.
>
> I'm on Debian. I'm curious to know what did I say to make you think I'm
> on Mac :)
"You're" was referring to John Wiegley there.
>
>>Also, I don't think this bug would trigger crashes, just extreme
>>system slowness due to swapping.
>
> Well, it eats all my memory. It is worse than a crash,
Yes, it can be. A crash only affects Emacs, the slowness affects the
whole system.
> the first time I
> had problems managing to kill Emacs.
Although as far as I could tell, a normal SIGINT is still enough to
kill Emacs, but it took around 10 or 20 seconds before it actually
took effect (due to the aforementioned system slowness).
- bug#26952: 25.1; loops eating all memory while yanking big rectangle, (continued)
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- bug#26952: 25.1; loops eating all memory while yanking big rectangle, Francesco Potortì, 2017/05/25
- bug#26952: 25.1; loops eating all memory while yanking big rectangle,
Noam Postavsky <=
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- bug#26952: 25.1; loops eating all memory while yanking big rectangle, Paul Eggert, 2017/05/25
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- bug#26952: 25.1; loops eating all memory while yanking big rectangle, Paul Eggert, 2017/05/25
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