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Date:      Wed, 14 Jul 1999 07:15:26 +0900 (JST)
From:      Noriyuki Soda <soda@sra.co.jp>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        Noriyuki Soda <soda@sra.co.jp>, Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>, "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.ORG>, bright@rush.net, dcs@newsguy.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jon@oaktree.co.uk, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org
Subject:   Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2) 
Message-ID:  <199907132215.HAA15042@srapc342.sra.co.jp>
In-Reply-To: <199907132153.OAA81153@apollo.backplane.com>
References:  <199907132127.OAA80947@apollo.backplane.com> <199907132139.GAA14890@srapc342.sra.co.jp> <199907132153.OAA81153@apollo.backplane.com>

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>>>>> On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 14:53:43 -0700 (PDT),
	Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> said:

>     If you are talking about a user intentionally attempting to run
>     a system out of swap, it is fairly easy to do whether the system
>     uses an overcommit model or not.  The user has any number of
>     ways of blowing the server up too - for example, by making
>     thousands of connections to it or running many huge queries in
>     parallel.

If the kernel and the application behave properly, critical
application doesn't lose it's data in such situation on
non-overcommiting systems.
Your example doesn't make sense.
--
soda


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