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Article #9155Re: I/O error during autosave
From: David Fox
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 1992 03:34
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 1992 03:34
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In article <9203090231.AA15149@rodan.UU.NET> kyle@uunet.UU.NET (Kyle Jones) writes:
David Fox writes:
> Apparantly this is another known bug, along with the occasional
> crashes of emacs associated with moving around in large mailboxes
> which I reported about a year ago. I wish these bugs would go
> away. They are unnerving blemishes on an otherwise excellent
> package.
These bugs have nothing to do with VM. They are Emacs bugs.
The large folder induced crashes are usually becasue of the 8MB
virtual memory limit that is the default in the out of the box
Emacs. I suggest compiling Emacs to have a 32MB limit. I've
done it, and I'm able to have all day Emacs sessions again. It's
a simple matter of adding a couple of #defines to src/config.h.
The I/O bug is stimulated with large folders because large
folders take longer to write to disk, hence a larger window for
an interrupt to occur. Again not a VM problem.
I have been recommending all along that people not use VM with
large folders. I'd like to take this opportunity to say "I TOLD
YOU SO." :-)
Ok, I guess you did. Time to clean out my INBOX.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f6829,81302ef199d8e978 X-Google-Attributes: gidf6829,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-03-08 23:41:29 PST Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.bug Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!think.com!yale.edu!cmcl2!cs!fox From: fox@cs.nyu.edu (David Fox) Subject: Re: I/O error during autosave In-Reply-To: kyle@uunet.UU.NET's message of Sun, 8 Mar 92 21:31:41 -0500 Message-ID: <FOX.92Mar8223445@graphics.nyu.edu> Sender: notes@cmcl2.nyu.edu (Notes Person) Nntp-Posting-Host: graphics.cs.nyu.edu Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences References: <FOX.92Mar7000109@graphics.nyu.edu> <FOX.92Mar8203009@graphics.nyu.edu> <9203090231.AA15149@rodan.UU.NET> Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1992 03:34:45 GMT Lines: 26