Re: help with dynamic-space-size

Thanks for this and pardon my ignorance. I don't know how to make sure 
*that* particular command has been executed.

 From the fact that M-x slime leaves me in sbcl-2.5.10, I assumed that 
the sbcl bit was executed.
 From the fact that (dynamic-space-size) returns 1024^3 rather than 3 
times that, I assumed that the option
was not executed. Perhaps the entire command was not executed and then I 
don't know why I wound up in
sbcl, but that's my problem.

On 2026-02-01 21:35, Stas Boukarev wrote:
> Make sure (setq inferior-lisp-program "sbcl --dynamic-space-size
> 3072") has actually been executed.
>
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2026 at 4:57 AM Greg Bennett <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Running sbcl-2.5.10 with emacs 29.3, under linux mint 22.2.
>>
>> I need to increase the size of the heap to (try to avoid) a Heap
>> exhausted error.
>>
>> If I open sbcl in a terminal with   sbcl --dynamic-space-size 3072
>>
>> and then evaluate (/ (dynamic-space-size) (expt 1024 3)), I get 3 as the
>> (expected) value.
>>
>> My .emacs.d/init.el contains just these 2 lines:
>>
>> (load (expand-file-name "~/quicklisp/slime-helper.el"))
>> (setq inferior-lisp-program "sbcl --dynamic-space-size 3072")
>>
>> There is no .emacs file.
>>
>> Starting emacs and then issuing M-x slime gets me a cl-user prompt.
>> (lisp-implementation-type) and (lisp-implementation-version) return the
>> expected values
>>
>> (/ (dynamic-space-size) (expt 1024 3))  returns 1, just as it does with
>> (setq inferior-lisp-program "sbcl")
>>
>> I should like to know how the set dynamic-space-size in my
>> initialization within emacs.
>>
>> Thanks for any advice/assistance
>>
>> Greg Bennett
>>
>>
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