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If I understand it correctly, all programs were coded for unbounded growth; just accept more jobs/connections until it fails.

Obviously this is a bad idea. Even in Erlang's case because while some processes may continue to function, the behavior becomes utterly unpredictable.

In the real world, we would gracefully reject jobs/connections above a certain threshold.


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