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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 5c532fe303: Recommend that the user turn off memory overcommit
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2022 22:17:58 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83pmlr9yft.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvy20f68co.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Fri, 08 Apr 2022 08:58:44 -0400)

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2022 08:58:44 -0400
> 
> > +@cindex memory trouble, GNU/Linux
> > +  On GNU/Linux systems, the system does not normally report running
> > +out of memory to Emacs, and can instead randomly kill processes when
> > +they run out of memory.  We recommend that you turn this behavior off,
> > +so that Emacs can respond correctly when it runs out of memory, by
> > +becoming the super user, editing the file @code{/etc/sysctl.conf} to
> > +contain the following lines, and then running the command @code{sysctl
> > +-p}:
> 
> FWIW, I think this is none of Emacs's business.

We describe in that node an Emacs feature that basically doesn't work
on GNU systems.  You are in effect saying that we don't care about
that.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-04-08 19:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <164941780605.21656.13343783431945268284@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org>
     [not found] ` <20220408113647.815ACC051D6@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org>
2022-04-08 12:58   ` master 5c532fe303: Recommend that the user turn off memory overcommit Stefan Monnier
2022-04-08 13:23     ` Óscar Fuentes
2022-04-08 13:31       ` Po Lu
2022-04-08 13:42         ` Brian Cully
2022-04-08 13:57           ` Po Lu
2022-04-08 15:03             ` Stefan Monnier
2022-04-08 19:59           ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-08 13:46         ` Óscar Fuentes
2022-04-09  0:23           ` Po Lu
2022-04-09  1:28             ` Óscar Fuentes
2022-04-08 19:17     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-04-09  4:17     ` Richard Stallman
2022-04-09  5:51       ` Tim Cross
2022-04-09  8:42       ` Phil Sainty
2022-04-09  9:08         ` Po Lu
2022-04-09 10:08           ` Phil Sainty
2022-04-09 10:27           ` Achim Gratz
2022-04-09  9:56         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-09 10:28           ` Phil Sainty
2022-04-09 10:41             ` Eli Zaretskii

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