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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Boruch Baum <boruch_baum@gmx.com>
Cc: 31091@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31091: 25.2: Feature Request: auto exit upon memory exhaustion warning
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2018 16:57:46 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83efjpztph.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180408132124.jusy2anuweqbepki@E15-2016.optimum.net> (message from Boruch Baum on Sun, 8 Apr 2018 09:21:24 -0400)

> Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2018 09:21:24 -0400
> From: Boruch Baum <boruch_baum@gmx.com>
> Cc: 31091@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> On 2018-04-08 15:58, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > FWIW, I consider automatic shutdown in this case a misfeature, because
> > this is likely to shut down a session due to some memory-related bugs
> > more than anything else.
> 
> You would want an emacs bug to bring down your entire system to just
> short of a complete freeze (my experience of today / last night)?

You would want to introduce a new non-trivial feature based on a
single data point, which is a bug that most probably was solved many
moons ago.

> > I do agree with Andreas that normally a system will start paging long
> > before the virtual memory threshold for that warning is exceeded.
> 
> Not my experience today / last night.

You are experiencing a particular nasty bug.





  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-08 13:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-08  7:22 bug#31091: 25.2: Feature Request: auto exit upon memory exhaustion warning Boruch Baum
2018-04-08  7:51 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-04-08  7:59   ` Boruch Baum
2018-04-08  8:36     ` Andreas Schwab
2018-04-08  8:46       ` Boruch Baum
2018-04-08 11:24         ` Andreas Schwab
2018-04-08 11:49           ` Boruch Baum
2018-04-08 16:10             ` Andreas Schwab
2018-04-08 16:17               ` Boruch Baum
2018-04-08 17:28                 ` Andreas Schwab
2022-04-24 14:25   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-08 12:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-08 13:21   ` Boruch Baum
2018-04-08 13:57     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-04-08 16:21       ` Andreas Schwab
2018-04-08 16:31         ` Noam Postavsky
2018-04-08 16:37         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-08 13:25 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-04-08 13:53   ` Boruch Baum
2018-04-08 15:27 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-04-08 15:54   ` Boruch Baum
2018-04-08 16:13     ` Andreas Schwab
2018-04-08 16:30     ` Noam Postavsky
2018-04-08 16:58       ` Boruch Baum
2018-04-08 17:26         ` Noam Postavsky
     [not found]           ` <20180408181013.6hw7ec3fi2dvfeja@E15-2016.optimum.net>
2018-04-08 21:58             ` bug#31091: [OFFLIST] " Noam Postavsky

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