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Article #2151Re: "Memory Exhausted" (nonrecoverable error)
From: Tod McQuillin
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 07:05
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 07:05
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kpc@pluto.arc.nasa.gov (k p c) writes: > i've tried it setting gc-cons-threshold to 7 meg and 6 meg. i'm > pretty sure it works at lower values too but not certain. lower > values are too small for everyday running. i can't upgrade to 18.59 > or 19 due to allegro extensions and lack of resources to install them. > epoch and lemacs can't handle vt100. our gnu emacs is stripped and i > don't know how to remake it. i am not willing to program in non-lisp > to fix it. > > i have getmem: > > Physical machine memory: 40868k > Max memory available to a process: 37716k > > and getswap: > > max 139316k, used 8128k, free 131188k > > on a sparc 2. i don't have to run x to get the error. Try increasing your data segment and stack resource limits with the csh command "unlimit" before you run emacs.
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Organization: Sponsored account, Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!tm8t+ Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Message-ID: <ofLYhH200XQDAcUscW@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 02:05:55 -0500 From: Tod McQuillin <tm8t+@andrew.cmu.edu> Subject: Re: "Memory Exhausted" (nonrecoverable error) In-Reply-To: <KPC.93Jan19181054@zog.arc.nasa.gov> References: <KPC.93Jan19181054@zog.arc.nasa.gov> Lines: 22