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| From: | Phil Sainty |
| Subject: | Re: master 5c532fe303: Recommend that the user turn off memory overcommit |
| Date: | Sat, 09 Apr 2022 22:08:04 +1200 |
| User-agent: | Orcon Webmail |
On 2022-04-09 21:08, Po Lu wrote:
It is random, from the perspective of the user, who eventually develops the sinking feeling that the kernel might not kill IceCat but Emacs the next time it happens.
It's one thing for the user to mistakenly believe that something is random, and it's quite another thing for our documentation to explicitly tell them that is the case. Describing it as "random" helps nobody and is misleading. (I think that doing so has already misled some of the people reading this mailing list.) The process can still be described (in a less-misleading way), and references to documentation can be made to inform users.
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