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icon13.gif   Move to: elog crashes with large no of entries being moved., posted by David Pilgram on Wed Jun 10 13:56:09 2009 
    icon2.gif   Re: Move to: elog crashes with large no of entries being moved., posted by Stefan Ritt on Wed Jun 10 14:09:04 2009 
       icon2.gif   Re: Move to: elog crashes with large no of entries being moved., posted by David Pilgram on Wed Jun 10 15:31:13 2009 
    icon2.gif   Re: Move to: elog crashes with large no of entries being moved., posted by Stefan Ritt on Thu Jun 25 15:55:04 2009 
Message ID: 66390     Entry time: Wed Jun 10 15:31:13 2009     In reply to: 66389
Icon: Reply  Author: David Pilgram  Author Email: David.Pilgram@epost.org.uk 
Category: Other  OS: Linux  ELOG Version: 2.7.6-2211 
Subject: Re: Move to: elog crashes with large no of entries being moved. 
> > Hi Stefan,
> > 
> > I've been slowly moving threads, and twice now so far (and reproducably) had elog crash.
> > 
> > In each case, it is trying to move a thread with more than 24 entries; it copies the first 24 entries, then
> > crashes with "Segmentation Fault".  It does not erase the lock file /var/run/elog.pid
> > 
> > I have got around this by manually copying the entries beyond no 24, then deleting the thread entry by entry.
> > 
> > I am aware that I have an old and limited machine (586, 256MB RAM, running Slack 10), and at first I was
> > "content" to write it off as that; but when it crashed for the second time at exactly the same entry (the
> > twenty-forth) even though the size of the entries would have been significantly different, I wondered if there
> > was some factor within  elog that could affect this.
> > 
> > I've not tried it with Copy to:, but imagine it will also be affected as the only difference with this and Move
> > to: is the deletion of the thread after all the entries had been copied.
> 
> This rings a bell: it's probably related to some internal stack overflow, since the entries are copied 
> recursively. I have an idea on how to fix that, but I need time for that.
Thanks Stefan,  I'll be keeping an eye out on any annoucement about this one!
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