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 15:58:14 +0300 Message-ID: <83po39zwgp.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20180408072223.5mwxvwl54v4nocr3@E15-2016.optimum.net> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1523192238 11469 195.159.176.226 (8 Apr 2018 12:57:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2018 12:57:18 +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 14:57:13 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 1f59se-0002rJ-I7 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2018 14:57:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53261 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f59uj-0000qJ-N3 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2018 08:59:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33712) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f59uT-0000ko-Ga for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2018 08:59:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f59uQ-0002UA-H3 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2018 08:59:05 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:34103) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f59uQ-0002Tn-Dz for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2018 08:59:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f59uQ-00015E-4d for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2018 08:59:02 -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 12:59:02 +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=B31091.15231923024120 (code B ref 31091); Sun, 08 Apr 2018 12:59:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 31091) by debbugs.gnu.org; 8 Apr 2018 12:58:22 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42000 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f59tm-00014O-CY for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2018 08:58:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:42087) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f59tk-000149-FJ for 31091@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2018 08:58:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f59tc-0000kq-6T for 31091@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2018 08:58:15 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:33798) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f59tc-0000kb-2T; Sun, 08 Apr 2018 08:58:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3100 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1f59tb-0000OO-5I; Sun, 08 Apr 2018 08:58:11 -0400 In-reply-to: <20180408072223.5mwxvwl54v4nocr3@E15-2016.optimum.net> (message from Boruch Baum on Sun, 8 Apr 2018 03:22:23 -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:144998 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2018 03:22:23 -0400 > From: Boruch Baum > > I would like to suggest a optional feature to automatically save > buffers and shut down emacs / emacs-server when this condition occurs. > The user could toggle its operation by manipulating a boolean variable. 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. But if others would like that, I won't block adding it as an opt-in option. I do agree with Andreas that normally a system will start paging long before the virtual memory threshold for that warning is exceeded.