Re: Bug#439425: Random, but fairly regular, zsh segfaults

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 10:51:12AM -0400, Clint Adams wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 05:40:26PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > zsh does the following to me fairly regularily; this seems different
> > to me than the other segfault bug reports.  It seems to do it
> > slightly more often in my root shells.  It seems to motly occur when
> > I'm typing ahead (due to engaging in complicated history searching
> > or whatever during machine slowdowns).
> > 
> > I'm not sure how to get further data on this; it's pretty random.
> > I'd be happy to work with the maintainer or upstream people, but
> > note that I'm AFK from 28 Aug 2007 to 11 Sep 2007.
> 
> What are your history-related options?  What are the values of $HISTSIZE
> and $SAVEHIST ?

rlpowell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> set | grep -a -i hist
'*'=(notify set 'history=100' 'savehist=100')
@=(notify set 'history=100' 'savehist=100')
HISTCHARS='!^#'
HISTCMD=6
HISTSIZE=30000
SAVEHIST=0
argv=(notify set 'history=100' 'savehist=100')
histchars='!^#'
history
historywords

Come to think of it, I may want to change SAVEHIST.  I suspect my
grotesquely large HISTSIZE is relevant, though.

-Robin