bug#2685: marked as done (Emergency (alloc): Warning: past 85% of memory limit)

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has caused the Emacs bug report #2685,
regarding Emergency (alloc): Warning: past 85% of memory limit
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> Emergency (alloc): Warning: past 85% of memory limit
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> Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:13:55 +0100
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> Hi,
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> I compiled using GCC 4.3.2 from debian lenny (abi=32):
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> GNU Emacs 23.0.91.1 (mips64el-unknown-linux-gnu, X toolkit) of
> 2009-03-15 on gcc51   
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> When launching emacs (in text mode) I get a *Warnings* window
> with the following message:
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> Emergency (alloc): Warning: past 85% of memory limit
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> The machine gcc51 has 1GB of RAM so this warning seems surprising.
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> Sincerely,
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> Laurent
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> Re: Emergency (alloc): Warning: past 85% of memory limit
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> Fri, 22 May 2009 14:46:56 -0400
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.91 (gnu/linux)
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> > The problem is that Emacs is not determining the start of the data
> > segment properly on MIPS machines.  In src/m/mips.h, we define
> > DATA_START as 0x10000000
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> On further research, I think this is wrong for GNU/Linux.  It was
> probably written for other operating systems in mind.  Undefining
> DATA_START on GNU/Linux is pretty harmless; as I said, this causes Emacs
> to fall back on another heuristic method for determining the start of
> the data segment.  (Anyway, this change only affects this particular
> platform).  So, I've checked in the change.
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