Re: HEADSUP to Emacs users

[Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>]

On 10/13/2014 12:21 PM, Doug Lewan wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ... On
> > Behalf Of Ken Brown
> > Sent: Saturday, 2014 October 11 13:37
> > To: cygwin
> > Subject: HEADSUP to Emacs users
> >
> > In a continuing effort to track down the cause of the mysterious
> > crashes
> > that some Emacs users have reported, I'm now wondering if these are
> > caused by the stack being too small.
> >
> > If you have been experiencing crashes, please issue the following
> > command (as administrator, while emacs is not running):
> >
> >     peflags -x0x80000 /usr/bin/emacs-*.exe
> >
> > This increases the stack size to 8MB.  And please let me know if you
> > see
> > any improvement as a result.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Ken
>
> Can that command be run harmlessly while emacs happens to be running?

No.  It actually changes the executable.

> (.bash_profile seems like a natural place to put it,

There's no need.  You just have to run it once, and then emacs will 
always use an 8MB stack after that.

Ken


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