From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Jul 27 05:19:32 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87D68376BD7 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 2020 05:19:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.82.1d4c20005c2f34e.4acd0d9a2a7ceb82d329dba618e948dd@email-od.com) Received: from s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com (s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com [142.0.176.198]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4BFSm36mV2z4Ty9 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 2020 05:19:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.82.1d4c20005c2f34e.4acd0d9a2a7ceb82d329dba618e948dd@email-od.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=email-od.com;i=@email-od.com;s=dkim; c=relaxed/relaxed; q=dns/txt; t=1595827172; x=1598419172; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:message-id:subject:to:from:date:x-thread-info; bh=rSRvkuRzzg3DyTEZ6z9b/VV88Z+bNI3YM5OVYKFwFuo=; b=tDiRpm75BJVUEsA7oemnitce8AKnjkvJGWi8Np4m6bayVrm+n1tyJ0jNUzC889X4mt4clv9wGZjLFHudkqHUCqSnDbGEXxjijtcsx7FU1duXFfGrlBXc9S9f01AJcgvpT7+/j8zt+nOl6btY9H/knJ38gBLUFUi3Os+thTzxC+A= X-Thread-Info: NDI1MC45Mi4xZDRjMjAwMDVjMmYzNGUuZnJlZWJzZC1xdWVzdGlvbnM9ZnJlZWJzZC5vcmc= Received: from r4.h.in.socketlabs.com (s1-b40f.socketlabs.email-od.com [142.0.180.15]) by mxsg2.email-od.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Mon, 27 Jul 2020 01:19:29 -0400 Received: from smtp.lan.sohara.org (EMTPY [185.202.17.215]) by r4.h.in.socketlabs.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Mon, 27 Jul 2020 01:19:28 -0400 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.lan.sohara.org) by smtp.lan.sohara.org with smtp (Exim 4.92.3 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1jzvXr-000BhG-9x for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 27 Jul 2020 06:19:27 +0100 Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 06:19:27 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith 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: <20200725162403.GA4721@admin.sibptus.ru> <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> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.32; amd64-portbld-freebsd12.0) X-Clacks-Overhead: "GNU Terry Pratchett" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4BFSm36mV2z4Ty9 X-Spamd-Bar: -- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=email-od.com header.s=dkim header.b=tDiRpm75; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of 4250.82.1d4c20005c2f34e.4acd0d9a2a7ceb82d329dba618e948dd@email-od.com designates 142.0.176.198 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=4250.82.1d4c20005c2f34e.4acd0d9a2a7ceb82d329dba618e948dd@email-od.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-2.04 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RWL_MAILSPIKE_VERYGOOD(0.00)[142.0.176.198:from]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[email-od.com:s=dkim]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.03)[-1.027]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; MV_CASE(0.50)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[sohara.org]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-0.996]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[4]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip4:142.0.176.0/20]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[email-od.com:+]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.32)[-0.320]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[142.0.176.198:from]; FORGED_SENDER(0.30)[steve@sohara.org,4250.82.1d4c20005c2f34e.4acd0d9a2a7ceb82d329dba618e948dd@email-od.com]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:7381, ipnet:142.0.176.0/22, country:US]; FROM_NEQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[steve@sohara.org,4250.82.1d4c20005c2f34e.4acd0d9a2a7ceb82d329dba618e948dd@email-od.com]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 05:19:32 -0000 On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 09:52:42 +0700 Victor Sudakov 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