Re: disappearing program

[Alex Schroeder]

"Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Alex Schroeder <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2003 11:51:03 +0200
>> 
>> Program terminated with signal SIGKILL, Killed.
>
> Is it possible that the system killed Emacs?  Do you see something
> interesting in SYSLOG?

You are right!

Apr  6 11:41:28 confusibombus udhcpc: Sending renew...
Apr  6 11:41:28 confusibombus udhcpc: Lease of 217.162.232.79 obtained, lease 
time 5400
Apr  6 11:44:29 confusibombus kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 447 (emacs).
Apr  6 11:44:29 confusibombus last message repeated 2 times

The pictures where rather large (400-500k JPEG files, resulting in
large bitmaps in memory, perhaps), and maybe I did not kill all the
buffers...  I also remember that I had been fiddling with some other
code that inflooped while allocating memory.  I don't remember whether
I ran it from eshell, ie. as a subprocess within Emacs, or not.
I will pay closer attention to these facts next time.

Alex.