>>>>> On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 14:53:43 -0700 (PDT),
	Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> said:

>     If you are talking about a user intentionally attempting to run
>     a system out of swap, it is fairly easy to do whether the system
>     uses an overcommit model or not.  The user has any number of
>     ways of blowing the server up too - for example, by making
>     thousands of connections to it or running many huge queries in
>     parallel.

If the kernel and the application behave properly, critical
application doesn't lose it's data in such situation on
non-overcommiting systems.
Your example doesn't make sense.
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