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Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
> On Monday 02 July 2007 00:14, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> On Sun, 1 Jul 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:

>> > What is so bad with it? Note it's a debugging facility and used
>> > for kcrash kernels where the video output doesn't work. But they
>> > normally only run a few minutes to dump the previous state to disk
>> > and then reboot.
>>
>> It has been a total disaster from beginning to end.
>>
>> It wastes power.
>
> Again:
> It's not intended for normal kernels. It's a debugging feature.
> It's not intended for normal kernels. It's a debugging feature.
> It's not intended for normal kernels. It's a debugging feature.
>
> Got it now? Power wasting or not just doesn't matter for it.

There may be some setups that would overheat due to the sudden load,
while still running fine under normal conditions. Especially if the
fan is off or broken.
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