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Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 19:05:14 -0500
From: quanstro@quanstro.net
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] quantity vs. quality
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you must have been running better software than i!  usually something
gets corrupted when a resource runs out.  and often, when you come
close to running out of memory on unix, performance sucks so bad you
wish the machine would just fall over.

- erik

On Sat Jun 10 18:06:01 CDT 2006, rminnich@lanl.gov wrote:
> quanstro@quanstro.net wrote:
> 
> > i'm skeptical that this is a real-world problem.  i've not run out of memory
> > without hosing the system to the point where it needed to be rebooted.
> 
> we've definitely had different experiences :-)
> 
> ron