On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 02:12:01PM -0800, Craig A. James wrote:
>And speaking of SGI, this very issue was among the things that sank the
>company. As the low-end graphics cards ate into their visualization
>market, they tried to become an Oracle Server platform. Their servers were
>*fast*. But they crashed -- a lot. And memory-overcommit was one of the
>reasons.
You realize that it had to be turned on explicitly on IRIX, right? But
don't let facts get in the way of a good rant...
Mike Stone