Re: emacs slow on dired renaming

[Robert Marshall]

On Wed, Apr 09 2014, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

>> A manual call to garbage-collect returns nil
>
> Quoting C-h garbage-collect:
>
>    However, if there was overflow in pure space, `garbage-collect'
>    returns nil, because real GC can't be done.
>
>> and pure-bytes-used is 88 -
>
> That indicates that pure space was overflowed.  IOW your Emacs build
> is broken.  You need to rebuild with a larger pure space.
>

Yes, I updated from bzr and that build gave me the
pure-space-overflow-message on startup (which the previous build didn't)
so I altered SYSTEM_PURESIZE_EXTRA and things are - so far - looking
good!

Robert
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