On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Wietse Venema wrote: > For example, when all data objects have limited size, and when the > number of objects instances is limited, so is the amount of memory > required to hold those objects. This is often not sufficient, though. The canonical example is Unix limits -- it may be fine for a user to run 50 processes, and for a user to run a 75MB Emacs process, but that doesn't imply they ought to be able to run 50 75MB processes. Kragen -- <kragenat_private> Kragen Sitaker <http://www.pobox.com/~kragen/> The sages do not believe that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself. -- Wang Yang-Ming
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