Re: Fix to long-standing crashes in GC

[Kai Grossjohann]

Luc Teirlinck <address@hidden> writes:

> The bug is of course not necessarily in Tramp, but could be in any of
> the machinery used by Tramp.  I get crashes using Tramp with ssh the
> entire time.  I have never observed a crash using an external transfer
> method, like scp (although I tried), so en/decoding seems a likely
> culprit.  I get strange error messages about invalid base64 data.

Now that I've read the umpteenth explanation of this, the thought was
finally triggered in my head.

Please see the variable tramp-chunksize, try to set it to 500 to see
what happens, and also do what the docstring says.

What are your findings?

Thanks,
Kai