Ask stupid questions and you'll get a stupid answers, was: Technological advantages over Linux

[Steve O'Hara-Smith]

On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 09:52:42 +0700
Victor Sudakov <vas at sibptus.ru> wrote:

> Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
> > On Sun, 26 Jul 2020 10:39:16 -0500

> > 	What a pity if that is the heavy weight analytic program that
> > has a run time of several hours/days and is the only thing that matters
> > running on the system.
> 
> If such a program's data is valuable at all, it should save provisional
> results from time to time to a non-volatile storage. Even office
> editors and spreadsheets save their data periodically.

	Ideally yes, but sometimes (especially when such a task is very
memory hungry) it's a one-off to get an answer needed by management. AFter
all well run production systems don't run into swapping issues.

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org>