Subject: Re: bug#54698: non-recursive GC marking [PATCH]

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2022 09:16:45 +0300

> From: Po Lu <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked],  [email-masked],
>   [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2022 13:49:18 +0800
> 
> Richard Stallman <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > Concretely, what is this "knob"?  Is it a per-process variable?  If
> > so, we could make Emacs set it, with a Lisp function to specify the
> > value.
> 
> It's a kernel parameter.

AFAIK, it can be set by editing a file.  Details are here:

  https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-can-i-disable-overcommit_memory
  https://serverfault.com/questions/485798/cent-os-how-do-i-turn-off-or-reduce-memory-overcommitment-and-is-it-safe-to-do