From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master 5c532fe303: Recommend that the user turn off memory overcommit Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2022 15:23:20 +0200 Message-ID: <87ilrjemk7.fsf@telefonica.net> References: <164941780605.21656.13343783431945268284@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org> <20220408113647.815ACC051D6@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="15633"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:XBQizYeT1xoMzGTazj989Mgd4tc= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 08 15:25:42 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ncocP-0003mg-CB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 08 Apr 2022 15:25:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59362 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ncocN-0004CF-0B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 08 Apr 2022 09:25:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56972) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ncoaJ-0001su-SA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Apr 2022 09:23:31 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:52752) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ncoaI-0001MT-5f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Apr 2022 09:23:31 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ncoaG-0000vf-Le for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Apr 2022 15:23:28 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:287957 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier 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.