zolia> I am getting message (Memory exhausted--M-x..for recovery..) when zolia> starting emacs (20.7-3) on woody.
colin> Are you sure you aren't actually out of memory? How much memory do colin> you have on that machine? colin> colin> Also, do you have any limits set on memory usage for that user? What colin> does 'ulimit -m' say (in bash)? zolia> Hello, zolia> lydys:~$ ulimit -m zolia> unlimited zolia> lydys:~$ free zolia> total used free shared buffers cached zolia> Mem: 190940 185936 5004 0 6304 119860 zolia> -/+ buffers/cache: 59772 131168 zolia> Swap: 124956 23244 101712 zolia> when i used potato, there weren't any problems. Problem persist zolia> even on free system :/ Maybe there is a way to trace the zolia> problem? Check out recent archives for gnu.emacs.bug, I remember there was somebody reporting a stack overflow (due to infinite recursion, of course) in y-or-n-p. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. EngSoc adopts market economy: cheap is wasteful, efficient is expensive. GPG pub key: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087