On Oct 25, 2011, at 15:36, Felip Moll wrote:

> Thanks to all!
> 
> I didn't search very well into the bugs database. Sorry.
> 
> Jean-Paul, I took a look to your repos but I didn't find any emacs package. I can only see:
> 	• emacs-doxymacs - Doxygen add-on for Emacs/XEmacs
> 	• emacs-w3 - W3 package for Emacs
> 	• emacs-sdcc - Emacs extensions for SDCC
> 
> But no emacs and emacs-common package.

I built packages with the proposed fix from BZ. It seems to work, and fix the issue. If you're interested even though they had no real testing, find them in http://www-zeuthen.desy.de/~wiesand/SL6/emacs/

Regards,
	Stephan

> Best regards.
> Felip
> 
> 2011/10/25 Stephan Wiesand <[log in to unmask]>
> Hello Felip,
> 
> On Oct 24, 2011, at 21:48, Felip Moll wrote:
> 
> > Recently I installed a SL6.1 Cluster with 16 nodes, slurm resource manager, etc.
> >
> > I use Emacs to edit my files as do some of the researchers of my investigation center.
> >
> > One day I detected that some daemons hunged. I discovered that the kernel was killing some processes because the system went out of memory. I couldn't reproduce the error anymore, and the thing seemed to occurr on very random times.
> >
> > Since this day, I limited with limits.conf the user stack to 15Gb. (my server has 16gb, and consumes normally no more than 1gb).
> >
> > Today, when I was doing some tasks I could see what is causing the problem. It's Emacs!. There seems to be a user that uses emacs and that does logout from his session without exiting it. The access to the server is done by ssh.
> >
> > I will try to install the latest 23.3 version with .tar.gz package but I like to use the Yum package if it's possible in order to keep the installation as "clean as possible".
> >
> > Should I report it to some place?
> 
> it seems someone else already has: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=732157
> 
> There's a proposed patch attached to that BZ.

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Stephan Wiesand
DESY -DV-
Platanenallee 6
15738 Zeuthen, Germany