Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 23:18:58 -0400 (EDT) > : John Baldwin <jobal...@vt.edu> wrote: > : > : > 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. > : > :What does it have to do with overcommit? Everthing in the world! > : > :If you have a lot of users, all of which have buggy programs which eat > :a lot of memory, per-user swap quotas don't necessarily save your butt. > > If every single one of your users is trying to crash your machine daily, > maybe you should consider throwing them off the system and finding users > that are less hostile. > > This conversation is getting silly. Do you actually believe that > an operating system can magically protect itself 100% from armloads of > hostile users? > > Give me a break. You people are crazy. If you have something worthwhile > to say i'll listen, but these "the sky is falling!" arguments are idiotic. > > -Matt >
students != hostile users Making mistakes is part of learning. Patrick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
