On 20110419_225719, Borden Rhodes wrote: > 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
There is no software that never fails. I don't use Eclipse, but it appears to be an integrated development platform. In other words software for helping programmers write software better and/or faster. It is for developers, not noobs who have no idea why software fails. Why are you trying to use it? But given your experience with Eclipse, I hope you are developing a healthy scepticism about proposals to have elections voted and votes counted on the Internet. Imagine what malicious persons could do with that. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- 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/20110420041656.ga6...@big.lan.gnu
