From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 16 10: 0: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from border.dreamworks.com (dreamworks.com [209.179.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1E6B914E31 for ; Fri, 16 Jul 1999 09:59:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ahorn@anim.dreamworks.com) Received: from mail.anim.dreamworks.com by border.dreamworks.com via smtpd (for hub.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.18]) with SMTP; 16 Jul 1999 16:59:59 UT Received: from juice.anim.dreamworks.com (ahorn@juice.anim.dreamworks.com [172.16.20.37]) by mail.anim.dreamworks.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA28212; Fri, 16 Jul 1999 09:55:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost by juice.anim.dreamworks.com via ESMTP (950413.SGI.8.6.12/940406.SGI) id JAA01744; Fri, 16 Jul 1999 09:56:59 -0700 Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 09:56:57 -0700 From: "Alan C. Horn" To: Matthew Dillon Cc: David Brownlee , Sean Witham , "Daniel C. Sobral" , Garance A Drosihn , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Swap overcommit (was Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2)) In-Reply-To: <199907161645.JAA20156@apollo.backplane.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > >: Well, NetBSD is slated to be used in the 'Space Acceleration >: Measurement System II', measuring the microgravity environment on >: the International Space Station using a distributed system based >: on several NetBSD/i386 boxes. >: >: Sometimes your 'what-if' senarios are others' standard operating >: procedures. >: >: David/absolute >: >: What _is_, what _should be_, and what _could be_ are all distinct. > > Ummm... this doesn't sound like a critical system to me. It sounds like > an experiment. > It's probably an awfully expensive experiment (putting things into space is not cheap) From a financial viewpoint that may be considered critical. Cheers, Al -- Alan Horn - Sysadmin - Dreamworks (+1 818 695 6256) - ahorn@anim.dreamworks.com I am Connor MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod. I was born in 1518 in the village of Glenfinnan on the shores of Loch Sheil, and I am immortal. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message