Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 23:18:58 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> Cc: tech-userlevel@netbsd.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Subject: Re: Swap overcommit (was Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2)) Message-ID: <199907140318.XAA04030@smtp4.erols.com> In-Reply-To: <199907140004.RAA25629@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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On 14-Jul-99 Jason Thorpe wrote: > 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> What does that have to do with overcommit? I student administrate a undergrad CS lab at a university, and when student's programs misbehaved, they generate a fault and are killed. The only machines that reboot on us without be explicitly told to are the NT ones, and yes we run FreeBSD. --- John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> -- http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/ PGP Key: http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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