On 14-Jul-99 Jason Thorpe wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 16:56:26 -0700 (PDT)
> Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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.
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