Subject: bug#9352: GNU/Emacs 23.3, Windows 7: Very huge .emacs-places can cause problems

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:12:16 -0400

"Christoph Conrad" wrote:

> After some time i found out that my ".emacs-places" over the years had
> reached a size of nearly 50 MB. I deleted it, problem gone.

Perhaps the default value for save-place-limit should be changed to
something large-ish but finite. Eg 400?
(I've had it set to 200 for many years with no ill effects.)