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From: | Po Lu |
Subject: | bug#54698: non-recursive GC marking [PATCH] |
Date: | Fri, 08 Apr 2022 19:58:44 +0800 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.91 (gnu/linux) |
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes: > 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). They will either get killed by the out-of-memory killer when overcommit is on, or they will abort (or crash) on failed malloc. IME all except for some special niche programs work with overcommit off.
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