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

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2022 14:52:42 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> Overcommit can be disabled on GNU/Linux (the relevant knob is
>> vm.overcommit_memory), which will malloc return an error when there is
>> no more memory left on the system, thereby triggering memory_full.
>
> Then I think we should advise users to do that.

I think it's outside Emacs' scope to advise users how to set up their
operating systems.

(Especially after three decades of Linux -- the kernel has always worked
this way.)

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