Re: Emacs: Memory exhausted
zolia> I am getting message (Memory exhausted--M-x..for recovery..) when
zolia> starting emacs (20.7-3) on woody.
colin> Are you sure you aren't actually out of memory? How much memory do
colin> you have on that machine?
colin>
colin> Also, do you have any limits set on memory usage for that user? What
colin> does 'ulimit -m' say (in bash)?
zolia> Hello,
zolia> lydys:~$ ulimit -m
zolia> unlimited
zolia> lydys:~$ free
zolia> total used free shared buffers cached
zolia> Mem: 190940 185936 5004 0 6304 119860
zolia> -/+ buffers/cache: 59772 131168
zolia> Swap: 124956 23244 101712
zolia> when i used potato, there weren't any problems. Problem persist
zolia> even on free system :/ Maybe there is a way to trace the
zolia> problem?
Check out recent archives for gnu.emacs.bug, I remember there was
somebody reporting a stack overflow (due to infinite recursion, of
course) in y-or-n-p.
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