Re: Linux robustness

On Sat, 31 May 2008 17:55:26 +0000, stan wrote:

Dave Uhring <daveuhring@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Well- Windows indeed has problems, but to be fair if you run out
of memory ( RAM + swap ) on any OS including Linux you are going
to have some very real problems.

I see that you have no experience with UNIX or the BSDs.


Only for about 30 years with HPUX, SunOS, Domain, etc.

"none" is relative I suppose.

Then you *should* know that exhaustion of VM does not take those OSs down.
Perhaps "some very real problems" is what is relative.

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