mark@UUNET.UU.NET (01/11/90)
System configuration: 6 mb real memory ~ 3 Mbytes available after UNIX 20+ mb virtual memory UNIX SYS V 2.3.?? GNUemacs version 18.54.21 with loadst running and display-time When a session has gotten big (on the order of an 8+ Mbyte process size) and is allowed to sit overnight without being suspended, the first keystroke in the morning causes RAMPANT paging. An in-house monitor shows that the GNUemacs process is paged in, and since there is too little memory paged back out, until the entire image has been paged through memory. After this happens once, everything is alright from then on. Is there something that emacs could be searching for throughout the entire process space? Or, is there a bug in our paging code that is simply freaking out at this point? I cannot come up with a reason for this strange behavior, and it can only be reproduced once per day. Mark Jones