Re: master 5c532fe303: Recommend that the user turn off memory overcommit

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2022 08:58:44 -0400
> 
> > +@cindex memory trouble, GNU/Linux
> > +  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}:
> 
> FWIW, I think this is none of Emacs's business.

We describe in that node an Emacs feature that basically doesn't work
on GNU systems.  You are in effect saying that we don't care about
that.