Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 14:38:49 -0700 From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2) Message-ID: <199907132138.OAA24282@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 14:27:54 -0700 (PDT)
Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
> You are assuming that the situation actually occurs. In real life,
> it will not occur unless the critical server is running away with
> memory.
>
> I have never, ever run one of BEST's servers out of swap. It has never
> been an issue.
In BEST's critical servers, maybe that's true. But applying your experience
at BEST to the wide range of UNIX users is ... a bit ridiculous, I think :-)
> And, I can only repeat, again, that long before a reasonably configured
> FreeBSD system runs out of swap it would become unusable from the I/O
> overload.
See previous point: "who said we were even going to swap *at all*?"
You're making a lot of assumptions about the sort of programs people
run on BSD systems, not all of which are reasonable to make.
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
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