Originally posted by waxhead
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Then there is the discussion if there should be a SIGOOM sent to all applications when the kernel enters a low memory situation so that they could free all their internal caches to help alleviate the situation.
However to be completely honest I think that we are all basically doing computers completely wrong, no single application should have a "save" function, instead every single change that you have made to a document should be saved instantly in a redo queue so that no matter when you yank out your power cord every single change up to the last ms (let's be reasonable after all) should be preserved with full redo/undo. And this should have been the norm since we switched from using floppies to hard drives.
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