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Date:      Wed, 14 Jul 1999 23:43:56 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        Noriyuki Soda <soda@sra.co.jp>
Cc:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>, "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.ORG>, bright@rush.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jon@oaktree.co.uk, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org
Subject:   Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2)
Message-ID:  <378CA22C.E5537F7A@newsguy.com>
References:  <199907132127.OAA80947@apollo.backplane.com> <199907132139.GAA14890@srapc342.sra.co.jp>

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Noriyuki Soda wrote:
> 
> Running out of swap can be easily done by normal user privilege.
> Non-overcommiting system can run important application on the system
> which has a normal user, because it never lose critical data, even if
> a user on the system make a mistake. (The application might stop,
> but it never lose data.)
> 
> 4.4BSD derived system cannot do this, and have to use different
> machine for such applications.

Incorrect. We can set *limits* to the users, so they won't be able
to crash down the system.

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