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Subject: Re: raid5d, page_launder and scheduling latency
To: andrewm@uow.edu.au (Andrew Morton)
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 17:43:43 +0100 (BST)
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au (Neil Brown),
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> - exit with 1,000 files open
> - exit with half a million pages to be zapped
> 
> And "fixing" copy_*_user is outright dumb.  Just fix the four
> or five places where it matters.

Depends if you want to use Linux as a Windows 3.1 replacement or a real OS.
In the latter case we need to fix the stupid cases too.

Alan

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