From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 5c532fe303: Recommend that the user turn off memory overcommit
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2022 12:27:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ilria6wn.fsf@Rainer.invalid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87wnfyoc8l.fsf@yahoo.com
Po Lu writes:
> Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz> writes:
>> I keep seeing the choice of process to kill being described as
>> "random", but it is not random.
>
> It is random, from the perspective of the user, who eventually develops
> the sinking feeling that the kernel might not kill IceCat but Emacs the
> next time it happens.
Random means different things to different people in various languages
and contexts. From the user perspective I think I would describe the
behaviour of the OOM killer as "unpredictable". As Phil said, if you
had the same information the kernel uses, the user could in principle
know what process it is going to select, however that data usually is
not available to the user when the OOM killer triggers.
Regards,
Achim.
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[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
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 [this message]
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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