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Article #41Re: Apple?
From: Eric Bennett
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 14:13
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 14:13
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In article <1995Jul28.140921.23093@mojo.europe.dg.com> colins@mojo.europe.dg.com (Colin Smith) writes: >These are not cases of the operating system spontaneously hanging the >way Windows does, these are cases of users beating the hell out of the >operating system with Big Stick. But the OS is unresponsive to the user for a long, long, long time, and if the user has to reboot to regain control of the machine, the effect is the same as a crash. When a Mac or Windows machine runs out of RAM, it says "out of RAM" and that's the end of it. Some Unix machines go bananas when they run out of RAM trying to scrape up some more, and the system can be unresponsive for a long time. >This is easily avoided, as previously >noted, start using quotas. The guy I referred to was using his personal machine. I guess he figured he didn't need quotas on himself. -Ericb@psu.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.cac.psu.edu!lure!ericb From: ericb@psu.edu (Eric Bennett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.destroy.microsoft Subject: Re: Apple? Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 14:13:25 GMT Organization: Penn State University, Center for Academic Computing Message-ID: <ericb.442.301CE504@psu.edu> References: <3rps76$e63@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at> <DC1DIn.3o53@austin.ibm.com> <3ut6o3$eoj@park.uvsc.edu> <nevin-2307951813260001@mac-nevin.cs.arizona.edu> <3uv8lj$c06@sashimi.wwa.com> <ericb.328.3013CC89@psu.edu> <3v155f$2jo@poplar.cs.sc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lure.bmb.psu.edu X-Authinfo-User: emb121@psu.edu X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev B]