From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#31091: 25.2: Feature Request: auto exit upon memory exhaustion warning Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2018 16:57:46 +0300 Message-ID: <83efjpztph.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20180408072223.5mwxvwl54v4nocr3@E15-2016.optimum.net> <83po39zwgp.fsf@gnu.org> <20180408132124.jusy2anuweqbepki@E15-2016.optimum.net> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1523195771 25087 195.159.176.226 (8 Apr 2018 13:56:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2018 13:56:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 31091@debbugs.gnu.org To: Boruch Baum Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 08 15:56:06 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f5And-0006Od-Rb for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2018 15:56:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56672 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f5Apj-0001GO-IR for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2018 09:58:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34339) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f5Apa-0001Ev-3K for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2018 09:58:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f5ApW-0002fS-6g for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2018 09:58:06 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:34702) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f5ApW-0002f8-2K for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2018 09:58:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f5ApV-0002aH-Qr for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2018 09:58:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2018 13:58:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 31091 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 31091-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B31091.15231958749919 (code B ref 31091); Sun, 08 Apr 2018 13:58:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 31091) by debbugs.gnu.org; 8 Apr 2018 13:57:54 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42599 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f5ApO-0002Zv-Bj for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2018 09:57:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:43267) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f5ApN-0002Zi-Cu for 31091@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2018 09:57:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f5ApE-00029w-CU for 31091@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2018 09:57:48 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:34482) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f5ApE-00029o-9T; Sun, 08 Apr 2018 09:57:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3228 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1f5ApD-0007IZ-A2; Sun, 08 Apr 2018 09:57:43 -0400 In-reply-to: <20180408132124.jusy2anuweqbepki@E15-2016.optimum.net> (message from Boruch Baum on Sun, 8 Apr 2018 09:21:24 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:145008 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2018 09:21:24 -0400 > From: Boruch Baum > 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.