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Emergency (alloc): Warning: past 95% of memory limit

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Message #5 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Pierre Gaston <pgas <at> iceland.freeshell.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Emergency (alloc): Warning: past 95% of memory limit
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:41:57 GMT

Just after starting emacs (using emacs -Q) the following message appears:
Emergency (alloc): Warning: past 95% of memory limit


In GNU Emacs 22.3.1 (alpha--netbsd, X toolkit)
 of 2009-01-26 on iceland
configured using `configure  '--x-includes=/usr/X11R6/include' '--x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib' '--with-gif' '--with-jpeg' '--with-png' '--with-tiff' '--with-x' '--with-xpm' '--with-x-toolkit=athena' '--localstatedir=/var' '--prefix=/usr/pkg' '--host=alpha--netbsd' '--infodir=/usr/pkg/info' '--mandir=/usr/pkg/man' 'host_alias=alpha--netbsd' 'CC=cc' 'CFLAGS=-O2 -mieee -I/usr/pkg/include -I/usr/include -I/usr/X11R6/include' 'LDFLAGS=-L/usr/pkg/lib -Wl,-R/usr/pkg/lib -L/usr/lib -Wl,-R/usr/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -Wl,-R/usr/X11R6/lib' 'LIBS=' 'CPPFLAGS=-DPNG_NO_ASSEMBLER_CODE -I/usr/pkg/include -I/usr/include -I/usr/X11R6/include''

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Message #8 received at 2072 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui <at> ceres.dti.ne.jp>
Cc: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>, 4629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
	2072 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: "Emergency (alloc): Warning: past 85% of memory limit" on
	NetBSD/mips
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:37:13 -0500

Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu> wrote:

> Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui <at> ceres.dti.ne.jp> wrote:
>
> > Emacs-23.1 on NetBSD/cobalt (mipsel) 5.0.1 also gets the following
> > warning message as well as bug#2685 on Debian lenny.
> >
> > >> Emergency (alloc): Warning: past 85% of memory limit
> >
> > The following patch (and configure rev 1.326 on HEAD) fixes it:
>
> mips.h is only used on NetBSD and GNU/Linux, so, IMO, the right thing to
> do here is just remove #define DATA_START in that file.

Indeed, thanks.  I've checked in the suggested fix.  Thanks.

> > NetBSD/alpha has the same problem as mentioned in bug#2072, and
> > the following patch for emacs-23.1 works fine on NetBSD/alpha 5.0:
>
> The solution should be the same in this file too.

FreeBSD and OpenBSD also use this, so I'm not sure this is right.  For
now, let's just use the __NetBSD__ conditional as originally suggested.

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