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Date:      Thu, 15 Jul 1999 00:32:58 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        "Charles M. Hannum" <root@ihack.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org
Subject:   Re: Swap overcommit (was Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2))
Message-ID:  <378CADAA.3CBFF593@newsguy.com>
References:  <199907140122.VAA14015@bikini.ihack.net>

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"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

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