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Quotes of the week
Really someone needs to sit down and actually build a proper model
of the VM behaviour in a tool like netlogo rather than continually
keep adding ever more complex and thus unpredictable hacks to
it. That way we might better understand what is occurring and why.
-- Alan Cox
It is very disappointing that nobody appears to have attempted to
do _any_ sensible tuning of these controls in all this time - we
just keep thrashing around trying to pick better magic numbers in
the base kernel.
-- Andrew Morton
Maybe we should set the tunables to 99.9% to make it suck enough to motivate someone.
We kernel people really are special. Expecting normal apps to spend
the kind of effort we do (in scalability, in error handling, in
security) is just not realistic.
-- Linus Torvalds(Log in to post comments)
Quotes of the week Posted Apr 2, 2009 15:08 UTC (Thu) by rmn30 (guest, #36960) [Link]
Linus said what I have been thinking throughout this whole debate. Let's hope people heed his suggestion and find a usable compromise.
Quotes of the week Posted Apr 3, 2009 4:16 UTC (Fri) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]
I love this one from Matthew Garrett in response to Theodore Ts'o:
> Which application developers did you speak to? Because, frankly, the majority of the ones I know felt that ext3 embodied the pony that they'd always dreamed of as a five year old. Stephen gave them that pony almost a decade ago and now you're trying to take it to the glue factory. I remember almost crying at that bit on Animal Farm, so I'm really not surprised that you're getting pushback here.
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