Subject: Re: Swap overcommit (was Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2))
To: Charles M. Hannum <root@ihack.net>
From: Daniel C. Sobral <dcs@newsguy.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 07/15/1999 00:32:58
"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.

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