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Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 09:25:17 -0700
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Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.29
From: Alex Goebel <alex.goebel@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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On 3/28/09, Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> wrote:

> Well, for the time being, why not base considerations for performance,
> interactivity, energy consumption, graceful restoration of application
> state etc. on the assumption that kernel crashes are suitably rare?  (At
> least on systems where data loss would be of concern.)

Absolutely! That's what I thought all the time when following this
(meanwhile quite grotesque) discussion. Even for ordinary
home/office/laptop/desktop users (!=kernel developers), kernel crashes
are simply not a realistic scenario any more to optimize anything for
(which is due to the good work you guys are doing in making/keeping
the kernel stable).

Alex
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