Re: xemacs on X11 Beta 3 (update)
Re: xemacs on X11 Beta 3 (update)
- Subject: Re: xemacs on X11 Beta 3 (update)
- From: robert delius royar <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 08:48:36 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: An Apple OS X end user
- Priority: NEW
On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Lawrence Paulson wrote:
> On Friday, April 4, 2003, at 05:57 pm, robert delius royar wrote:
>
> > I suspect the error is lower level. Perhaps
> > it is triggered by code in xmu.c, but it could just be from one of the
> > dynamic load libraries. What is your stack size (greater than 8megs
> > recommended)?
>
> No idea. The default presumably.
The default is 512K. There have been many cases on OS X (and on Sun I
believe) where stacks less than 8M have caused crashes.
try the `limit' command under tcsh/csh or `ulimit -a' under sh/bash to see
your memory limits. If the stack is set less than 8M, then reset it with
one of the following:
t/csh
limit stack 8m
s[bas]h
ulimit -s 8192
Then run XEmacs in that same instance of the shell. If this works, add the
command to the appropriate shell init file. If you ever try the carbon
version of XEmacs, you will need to add the command to one of your system
startup scripts. Or heavily fonted files with font-lock will crash. This
bug is in the regex part of the code and can be fixed in XEmacs when it is
compiled by telling it to use malloc rather than the stack for allocations.
--
Dr. Robert Delius Royar Associate Professor of English
Morehead State University Morehead, Kentucky
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