Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 17:04:12 -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: Swap overcommit (was Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2)) Message-ID: <199907140004.RAA25629@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 16:56:26 -0700 (PDT)
Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
> You have to consider the probability of an event occuring, not just
> the possibility that the event might occur. If the probability is
> one in a million years, then it is not something you need to worry
> about relative to other things that, perhaps, you *should* be worrying
> about.
Having been a systems programmer and systems administrator at a
university computer science department, dealing with large (well,
they were large back then :-) systems where 60 students log in
simultaneously to do their "Data Structures in C++" homework, I
can guarantee you that the probability that someone else's buggy
program will kill your unrelated application is a lot more than
"once in a million years".
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
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