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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ChangeLogs on CVS? Commit netiquette.
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:56:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r5ohhrlc.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvwry9axzn.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org

Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:

>> Not sure what recipe to post, but the adventures with bzr2
>> eventually crashed my Jaunty box
>
> Then it's unfair to blame it on bzr, it's either a problem in the OS
> or in the hardware.

Memory overcommitting is a frequent OS allocation strategy.  When it
fails and some program eats all that is there and more, some process has
to die.  If the wrong one is chosen, the system can fail.

There are workarounds (like ulimits and stuff), but they tend to cause
operations to fail that could otherwise complete.

-- 
David Kastrup





  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-19 20:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-18 20:07 ChangeLogs on CVS? Commit netiquette T.V. Raman
2010-02-18 21:38 ` Karl Fogel
2010-02-19  0:18   ` T.V. Raman
2010-02-19  0:21   ` T.V. Raman
2010-02-19  0:44     ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-02-19  3:10       ` T.V. Raman
2010-02-19  3:20       ` T.V. Raman
2010-02-19  5:50         ` Karl Fogel
2010-02-19  7:16           ` Jan Djärv
2010-02-19 11:06             ` Andreas Schwab
2010-02-19 16:18             ` T.V. Raman
2010-02-19 16:34               ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-02-19 17:08               ` David Kastrup
2010-02-19 16:19           ` T.V. Raman
2010-02-19 18:21             ` Stefan Monnier
2010-02-19 20:56               ` David Kastrup [this message]
2010-02-23 16:21                 ` Stefan Monnier

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