Re: Better interactivity in low-memory situations

[Jan Kratochvil]

On Sun, 11 Aug 2019 20:54:28 +0200, Chris Murphy wrote:
> and likely experiences data loss and possibly even file system
> corruption as a direct consequence of having to force power off on the
> machine because for all practical purposes normal control has been
> lost.

Not really, this is what journaling filesystem is there for.

But then there still can be an application-level data corruptions if an
application does not handle its sudden termination properly.
Which should be rare but IIRC I did see it for example with Firefox.

Jan