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Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 00:57:32 +0100
From: Andre Oppermann <oppermann@telehouse.ch>
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Subject: Re: Green/Yellow/Red state for the VM system.
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Bill Fumerola wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 12:39:39AM +0100, Andre Oppermann wrote:
> 
> > OK, but would the right solution be to simply make more memory
> > available? I doubt it. A bug is a bug and needs to be fixed not
> > to be masked. Eventually it would fail just in a different place.
> 
> When you are being attacked / loosing resources to some big problem,
> any memory you make available is going to be eaten by the bug / attack.
> 
> The trick is to change your behavior, not just use a bigger tool.

If you had read my previous email further, instead of just stopping
after the first sentence that apparently offended you, you would have
seen that I come to the same conclusion with the twist that the change
of behaviour should happen on a per sub-system basis, not on a global
kernel-KVM basis.

-- 
Andre


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