Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 20:10:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 20:10:16 -0400 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]:35711 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 20:10:16 -0400 Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 01:51:46 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Richard Gooch Cc: Aviv Shavit , Ken Brownfield , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: vm-33, strongly recommended [Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable] Message-ID: <20020411015146.D14605@dualathlon.random> In-Reply-To: <20020225224050.D26077@asooo.flowerfire.com> <20020409204545.11251.qmail@web13205.mail.yahoo.com> <20020410013609.A6875@dualathlon.random> <200204100007.g3A07o329371@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> <20020410023006.B6875@dualathlon.random> <200204102240.g3AMeMn16102@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 04:40:22PM -0600, Richard Gooch wrote: > Just because you want people to apply your patches, doesn't mean you > should resort to alarmist-sounding messages. Let's at least have truth > in advertising in one small corner of the world :-) It's not a 99.99% that doesn't need it, I'd say a 5% would strictly need it. There are various known problems, and they're all fixed by such patch AFIK so unless you want to risk you _should_ apply it, that's the whole point of the previous email. Andrea - 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/