Good evening, I do mean this earnestly and, despite my frustration, I am not trying to flame the good people of Debian, GNU or Linux. Nevertheless, I have to ask: why is it that in 2011, the world's greatest operating system lets Eclipse seize control of my computer, eat up 2 GB of RAM, monopolise a 2.2 GHz, dual-core processor and flood my hard drive with I/O? I thought that a computer capable of processing over 4 billion operations a second could sort itself out in 20 minutes but, alas, I had to yank the power.
I thought the Linux kernel was supposed to have controls in place to prevent programs from getting away with this. Of course, the problems inherent in Java, and by extension, Eclipse, are a whole other topic. However, is there a kernel task force working to prevent this from happening and, if so, what's the best way of giving them feedback when my system locks up so they can plug up the hole? I hate to think what a malicious program could do to a web server if Eclipse can do this to my computer. With thanks, Borden Rhodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/BANLkTi=jY3bT=ridkxje+8neclkfnna...@mail.gmail.com
