[debbugs-tracker] bug#9352: closed (GNU/Emacs 23.3, Windows 7: Very huge .emacs-places can cause problems)

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.emacs-places can cause problems
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> GNU/Emacs 23.3, Windows 7: Very huge .emacs-places can cause problems
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> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 18:37:44 +0200
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> Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/23.3
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> Hi,
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> after several investigation i found out the reason for crashing my emacs
> crashing several times today.
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> I use
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> ;; Shortcut for saving desktop and saveplaces
> (global-set-key (kbd "S-<f9>")
>                 '( lambda ()
>                    (interactive)
>                    (save-place-alist-to-file)
>                    (desktop-save desktop-dirname)))
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> sometimes t save my "session". Today emacs showed me a message after
> that every time, "memory exhausted", and after two or three times he
> crashed repeatable.
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> 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.
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> In GNU Emacs 23.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt4.0.1381)
>  of 2011-03-10 on 3249CTO
> Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 4.0.1381
> configured using `configure --with-gcc (4.5) --no-opt --cflags 
> -Ic:/imagesupport/include'
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> Important settings:
>   value of $LC_ALL: nil
>   value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
>   value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
>   value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
>   value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
>   value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
>   value of $LC_TIME: nil
>   value of $LANG: DEU
>   value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
>   locale-coding-system: cp1252
>   default enable-multibyte-characters: t
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> Re: bug#9352: GNU/Emacs 23.3,	Windows 7: Very huge .emacs-places can cause problems
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> Date: 
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> Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:52:49 -0400
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> Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)
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> Version: 24.1
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> Glenn Morris wrote:
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> > Perhaps the default value for save-place-limit should be changed to
> > something large-ish but finite. Eg 400?
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> Done.
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