Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261354AbTIXDzv (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Sep 2003 23:55:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261355AbTIXDzu (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Sep 2003 23:55:50 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:63156 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261354AbTIXDzu (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Sep 2003 23:55:50 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 20:54:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Larry McVoy cc: Rik van Riel , Andrea Arcangeli , , Kernel Mailing List , Matthew Wilcox , Marcelo Tosatti Subject: Re: log-buf-len dynamic In-Reply-To: <20030924034552.GB7887@work.bitmover.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 632 Lines: 17 Larry, I think you remember the good old days of SunOS, when 16MB of RAM was a lot, and people expected less of their hardware. In particular, interactive programs used to have a _tiny_ footprint. Often even under X. Then we put Solaris, Motif and CDE on those suckers, and it was horrible. Yeah, SunOS was nice. But I really think it's the access patterns that changed. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/