Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 15:31:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 15:31:41 -0500 Received: from ua18d4hel.dial.kolumbus.fi ([62.248.131.18]:8274 "EHLO porkkala.jlaako.pp.fi") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 15:31:25 -0500 Message-ID: <3C449140.889FC8A0@kolumbus.fi> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 22:29:52 +0200 From: Jussi Laako X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephan von Krawczynski CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable In-Reply-To: <200201150143.CAA24288@webserver.ithnet.com> 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 Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > > Time to take out these big hats and rename ourself to Gandalf or the > like. What do you expect your server to do, having no problem "most of > the time"? Please read Albert E. Time can be pretty relative to your > personal point of view... Is this flaming really necessary? So we don't have care about how long some driver spends in it internal loops? So we could as well start writing drivers like while (!frame_received()) udelay(1000000); Because one day we will have powershortage anyway and that will anyway cause few hours latencypeak? And if the user pulls the ethernet plug we don't have to do anything else? - Jussi Laako -- PGP key fingerprint: 161D 6FED 6A92 39E2 EB5B 39DD A4DE 63EB C216 1E4B Available at PGP keyservers - 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/