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. Eve

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.