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On Wednesday 26 May 2004 10:55, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 12:31:16AM -0700, Buddy Lumpkin wrote: > > This of course doesn't address the VM paging storms that happen due to > > large amounts of file system writes. Once the pagecache fills up, dirty > > pages must be evicted from the pagecache so that new pages can be added > > to the pagecache. > > If you've got a real performance issue, please describe it properly > instead of asserting without evidence the existence of one. On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 01:30:09AM -0700, Buddy Lumpkin wrote: > As for your short, two sentence comment below, let me save you the energy of > insinuations and translate your message the way I read it: > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > I don't recognize your name, therefore you can't possibly have a valuable > opinion on the direction VM system development should go. I doubt you have > an actual performance problem to share, but if you do, please share it and > go away so that we can work on solving the problem. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > My response: > Get over yourself. You were very wrong here. He did not say that. You pervert his words. On Wednesday 26 May 2004 12:09, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > >- My response: > > Get over yourself. > > What the Hell? I have enough bugs I'm paid to fix that I'm not going to > tolerate harassment for requesting that claims that the kernel behaves > pathologically in some scenario be cast as comprehensible bugreports. > It's also worth noting that paying customers don't respond so uncouthly. wli, understandably, become angry. On Wednesday 26 May 2004 14:38, Buddy Lumpkin wrote: > If you follow the thread, you will see no claim from me that there is > anything wrong with the kernel. I simply stated that the priority of VM > system development should focus on physical memory... ... > This situation isn't even remotely similar. In this case, you (a > contributor to a very, very large FREE software project) misread a thread > and made some surly comments that you ended up eating, and are so used to > telling people that you owe them nothing, that you have some how conjured > up the image that I actually want something from you. ... > This is classic, you have managed to put yourself in a position where you > spend the majority of your time working on a free project that has some > very ambitious goals. It has afforded you the ability to forfill your own > personal and professional goals as well, yet you reserve the right to > discard all accountability for your actions when it's convenient because > you get some frank feedback from someone that is not a paying customer. > > What a crutch. > > I can picture where this is going. Here is an interview between you and a > popular Linux magazine in two years: <joke> Aha! Now we all know that wli is evil. Thanks for your crystall ball. </joke> -- vda - 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/ | ||||||||||||
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