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There's an actual and very good reason not to install emacs on servers. It has had a persistent bug where on terminal hangup it occasionally won't stop but will

by jsnell 13y ago

There's an actual and very good reason not to install emacs on servers. It has had a persistent bug where on terminal hangup it occasionally won't stop but will keep running and rapidly leaks memory, until the OOM killer is triggered and causes random havoc. I'm a emacs user, and so are all the technical people in our company. Doesn't matter - installing it on production servers would still be unacceptable.

markrages 13y ago
As a dedicated emacs user, I would like to know more about this bug. Is there a bug report or mailing list discussion you could point me to? thanks.
- jsnell 13y ago
  Not that I know of. (I've seen it happen on Ubuntu 10.04 / Lucid, Debian 6 / Squeeze, Centos 5, RHEL 6, and with no .emacs).