Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 06:19:27 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ask stupid questions and you'll get a stupid answers, was: Technological advantages over Linux Message-ID: <20200727061927.e392885daedab739e1c94b2e@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20200727025242.GA48950@admin.sibptus.ru> References: <CAGBxaX=Ktr-pqtT8FU37ajkYonVLYT_WhSenn23Tj5b=i0d-8g@mail.gmail.com> <20200725162403.GA4721@admin.sibptus.ru> <CAGBxaXmBZcCWqAZFR9OSyRGrqGFU%2BqCAZ8CfOi=0oXAmf-2=tA@mail.gmail.com> <20200725182554.deffc63058a7c9f6d343ef06@sohara.org> <04df312d-9b2b-1873-2117-79a49e089bd9@kicp.uchicago.edu> <20200726063256.GA22924@admin.sibptus.ru> <20200726093909.ee5e14e643d31da4dad5c804@sohara.org> <20200726151835.GA35966@admin.sibptus.ru> <27ca8c6c-6b06-6ad4-7af0-2b88f51a3856@kicp.uchicago.edu> <20200726165212.a0ac28ce104b9dfd009cc4c5@sohara.org> <20200727025242.GA48950@admin.sibptus.ru>
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On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 09:52:42 +0700 Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru> wrote: > Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > > On Sun, 26 Jul 2020 10:39:16 -0500 > > What a pity if that is the heavy weight analytic program that > > has a run time of several hours/days and is the only thing that matters > > running on the system. > > If such a program's data is valuable at all, it should save provisional > results from time to time to a non-volatile storage. Even office > editors and spreadsheets save their data periodically. Ideally yes, but sometimes (especially when such a task is very memory hungry) it's a one-off to get an answer needed by management. AFter all well run production systems don't run into swapping issues. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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