From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 14 9: 0:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBBC414CC9 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 09:00:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id AAA07241; Thu, 15 Jul 1999 00:59:05 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <378CADAA.3CBFF593@newsguy.com> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 00:32:58 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Charles M. Hannum" Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Swap overcommit (was Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2)) References: <199907140122.VAA14015@bikini.ihack.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Charles M. Hannum" wrote: > > There are many environments where even the possibility of the > simulation crashing due to external influence is unacceptable. I find > it sad that you resist making FreeBSD robust against such problems, > but that's your concern. FreeBSD is robust against the problems you describe. All it takes is for you to define proper limits for memory usage for each user. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Would you like to go out with me?" "I'd love to." "Oh, well, n... err... would you?... ahh... huh... what do I do next?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message