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25.2: Feature Request: auto exit upon memory exhaustion warning

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From: Boruch Baum <boruch_baum <at> gmx.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 31091 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31091: 25.2: Feature Request: auto exit upon memory exhaustion warning
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2018 09:21:24 -0400

On 2018-04-08 15:58, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> FWIW, I consider automatic shutdown in this case a misfeature, because
> this is likely to shut down a session due to some memory-related bugs
> more than anything else.

You would want an emacs bug to bring down your entire system to just
short of a complete freeze (my experience of today / last night)?

>  But if others would like that, I won't block adding it as an opt-in
> option.

> I do agree with Andreas that normally a system will start paging long
> before the virtual memory threshold for that warning is exceeded.

Not my experience today / last night.

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