Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763457AbXEYRJS (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 May 2007 13:09:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752176AbXEYRJE (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 May 2007 13:09:04 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:53478 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751588AbXEYRJC (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 May 2007 13:09:02 -0400 Message-ID: <465717BE.6070102@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 13:07:10 -0400 From: Chuck Ebbert Organization: Red Hat User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Chris Newport , Ingo Molnar , Christoph Lameter , Michal Piotrowski , Andrew Morton , LKML , "Cherwin R. Nooitmeer" , linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org, Robert de Rooy , Alan Cox , Tejun Heo , sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, David Miller , Mikael Pettersson , linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Stefan Richter , Kristian H?gsberg , linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Pavel Machek , Marcus Better , Andrey Borzenkov , linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: Re: [2/3] 2.6.22-rc2: known regressions v2 References: <46558708.2040803@googlemail.com> <46559B54.80106@googlemail.com> <20070524193740.GA6787@elte.hu> <20070525101105.GA9268@elte.hu> <4656CE39.8050800@netunix.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 735 Lines: 16 On 05/25/2007 12:45 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Yes, in a controlled environment, dumping the whole memory image to disk > may be the right thing to do. BUT: in a controlled environment, you'll > never get the kind of usage that Linux gets. Why do you think Linux (and > Windows, for that matter) took away a lot of the market from traditional > UNIX? > Windows can dump memory to the swap file on crash. Default is a "minidump" IIRC but you can set it to dump all memory (or none.) - 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/