HEADSUP to Emacs users

[Ken Brown]

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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