Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 May 1999 01:50:00 +0530 (IST) | From | Rahul Siddharthan <> | Subject | Re: Ken Thompson interview in IEEE Computer magazine (fwd) |
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I sent a mail which apparently got clogged in our gateway and will probably reach you after a day or two... anyway some of it has been repeated by others, but among other things I asked:
> I don't know anything about how the kernel works, and if this > sort of discussion doesn't belong here, please stop me.
Well from the active discussion it sounds like it does belong here :)
> * if he examined the source and found some of it is bad, maybe he > could tell people what exactly is bad? Maybe he'd be willing to > do that, especially if some people on this list know him?
Again, two specific problems I had in mind were mentioned by someone else: NFS and memory management. NFS is around 4 times slower than on other machines (it used to be 10 times slower in 2.0.x), and memory hogging programs sometimes bring the system to a crawl. But he may have ideas which have little to do with what the users see.
Apologies in advance for a mail which will land on the list in the unpredictable future, probably after the discussion dies down...
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