GNU bug report logs - #24708
25.1; Launching Emacs Under ld-linux.so Results in Memory Exhausted on Some Linuxes

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Nicolas Hafner <shinmera <at> tymoon.eu>

Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2016 16:32:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Found in version 25.1

Fixed in version 26.1

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 24708 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Nicolas Hafner <shinmera <at> tymoon.eu>
Cc: mordocai <at> mordocai.net, 24708 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24708: 25.1;
 Launching Emacs Under ld-linux.so Results in Memory Exhausted on Some
 Linuxes
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2018 19:45:16 -0400

Nicolas Hafner <shinmera <at> tymoon.eu> writes:

> Attempting to run Emacs 25.1 with ld-linux.so under certain Linux
> distributions will cause an immediate crash with a "Memory exhausted"
> message. I can reproduce this consistently under Arch Linux (Kernel
> 4.8.1-1) and Debian Stretch (Kernel 4.6.0-1). However, Emacs launches
> just fine with ld-linux under Linux Mint 17.1 (Kernel 3.13).

Does still happen with Emacs 26.1?  There's been some changes to memory
allocater selection since then.
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