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Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=2627 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ncnUY-0004ic-Qw; Fri, 08 Apr 2022 08:13:39 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87h773aixt.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Fri, 08 Apr 2022 13:55:10 +0200) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:229564 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , rms@gnu.org, p.stephani2@gmail.com, > mattiase@acm.org, 54698@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2022 13:55:10 +0200 > > Po Lu writes: > > > 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} as the > > super user: > > I don't think we should recommend doing this. It has serious > deleterious effects on the operating system, because many programs > written for GNU/Linux depends on the current behaviour (where malloc-ing > basically never ever fails). We could explain the advantages and disadvantages, and let users decide.