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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: "Brian Cully" <bjc@spork.org>, "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 5c532fe303: Recommend that the user turn off memory overcommit
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2022 11:03:43 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv5ynj635n.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wnfzr82y.fsf@yahoo.com> (Po Lu's message of "Fri, 08 Apr 2022 21:57:41 +0800")

> None of this says that memory overcommit is "bad", it says that it's
> detrimental to the correct functioning of Emacs.  (And "correct" here
> means memory_full being called before Emacs is killed by the OOM
> killer.)

But it has that same detrimental effect on all other applications.
So it's not specific to Emacs, which is why I think it's "none of
Emacs's business".

I disagree with Óscar's "way over the top", tho: it's a fairly minor
question, IMO.


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2022-04-08 15:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <164941780605.21656.13343783431945268284@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org>
     [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 [this message]
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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