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non-recursive GC marking [PATCH]

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Message #115 received at 54698 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
Cc: p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com, mattiase <at> acm.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
 54698 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rms <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#54698: non-recursive GC marking [PATCH]
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2022 13:55:10 +0200

Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com> writes:

> On GNU/Linux systems, the system does not normally report running out of
> memory to Emacs, and can instead randomly kill processes when they run
> out of memory.  We recommend that you turn this behavior off, so that
> Emacs can respond correctly when it runs out of memory, by becoming the
> super user, editing the file @code{/etc/sysctl.conf} to contain the
> following lines, and then running the command @code{sysctl -p} as the
> super user:

I don't think we should recommend doing this.  It has serious
deleterious effects on the operating system, because many programs
written for GNU/Linux depends on the current behaviour (where malloc-ing
basically never ever fails).

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