From: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 5c532fe303: Recommend that the user turn off memory overcommit
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2022 15:23:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ilrjemk7.fsf@telefonica.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvy20f68co.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> +@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.
+1
Recommending to tweak kernel parameters is way over the top for dealing
with system-wide conditions on a way that supposedly is "correct" for
Emacs specifically.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-08 13:23 UTC|newest]
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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 [this message]
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
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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