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- 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>
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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.
-