Re: Emacs on Android OOMs with pdf-tools. (And an Android howto.)

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Lockywolf Laptop <lockywolf@gmail.com>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
> Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 14:06:53 +0800
> 
> >if the OOM mechanism of the OS kicks in while Emacs
> >still thinks it has more memory to use, it means something is wrong
> >with how the available memory is being reported to Emacs.  Emacs
> >should have sensed that it is approaching the limit and signaled the
> >memory-full signal before that happens.  I think this warrants a bug
> >report, with a reproducer.
> 
> Emacs doesn't actually crash or doesn't get killed because of OOM.
> Rather it produces a message of something like "Memory exhausted, run
> C-x C-s, and restart Emacs". Something does get broken at this point,
> as, for example, not all faces get rendered, but overall Emacs works.
> 
> I am not sure how how bad this is.

OK, it means at least Emacs knows about the memory problem and lets
you know, so you could end the session safely.

Thanks.