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VM crashes emacs

#104
From: Kyle Jones
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 21:04
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Thomas Weigert writes:
 > For quite a while I am experiencing sudden emacs crashes for no apparent
 > reason. Until recently I had not checked, since it happened only a few
 > times a week. But now it happens aggrevatingly often. 
 > 
 > I am convinced that the culprit is VM. In particular, it appears that once
 > your mail-files are sufficiently large (> 100 messages), then the tiniest
 > network timeout sends emacs down the tubes. I am using VM 5.31.

The culprit may be memory troubles after Emacs exceeds its 8 MB
virtual memory limit.  You can increase this limit to 32MB with a
two line addition to src/config.h.

#define VALBITS 26
#define GCTYPEBITS 5

 > Does anybody else experience this problem, and if so, how are
 > you working around it. Might upgrading to VM 5.32 help?

Probably not.
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From: kyle@uunet.uu.net (Kyle Jones)
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 17:04:17 -0400
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