On 14-Jul-99 Jason Thorpe wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 16:56:26 -0700 (PDT) > Matthew Dillon <dil...@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 <thor...@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 <jobal...@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 majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
