From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 13 17: 5:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from lestat.nas.nasa.gov (lestat.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.50.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23F22152F6 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 17:05:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov) Received: from lestat (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lestat.nas.nasa.gov (8.8.8/8.6.12) with ESMTP id RAA25629; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 17:04:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199907140004.RAA25629@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> To: Matthew Dillon Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Swap overcommit (was Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2)) Reply-To: Jason Thorpe From: Jason Thorpe Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 17:04:12 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 16:56:26 -0700 (PDT) Matthew Dillon wrote: > You have to consider the probability of an event occuring, not just > the possibility that the event might occur. If the probability is > one in a million years, then it is not something you need to worry > about relative to other things that, perhaps, you *should* be worrying > about. Having been a systems programmer and systems administrator at a university computer science department, dealing with large (well, they were large back then :-) systems where 60 students log in simultaneously to do their "Data Structures in C++" homework, I can guarantee you that the probability that someone else's buggy program will kill your unrelated application is a lot more than "once in a million years". -- Jason R. Thorpe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message