:
:On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 16:56:26 -0700 (PDT) 
: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
:
: >     You have to consider the probability of an event occuring, not just
: >     the possibility that the event might occur.  If the probability is 
: >     one in a million years, then it is not something you need to worry
: >     about relative to other things that, perhaps, you *should* be worrying
: >     about.
:
:Having been a systems programmer and systems administrator at a
:university computer science department, dealing with large (well,
:they were large back then :-) systems where 60 students log in
:simultaneously to do their "Data Structures in C++" homework, I
:can guarantee you that the probability that someone else's buggy
:program will kill your unrelated application is a lot more than
:"once in a million years".
:
:        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>

    This really has nothing to do with modern day computing or modern day
    computers, and certainly has nothing to do with the problem at hand.

    Well do I remember cory.berkeley.edu, a poor Vax 780 at the time which 
    got driven into the ground nearly every day.  The machine blew up at
    least once or twice a week, but it was never due to running out of swap.
    
					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@backplane.com>