From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 23:40:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 23:40:13 -0400 Received: from 64-42-29-14.atgi.net ([64.42.29.14]:43272 "HELO mail.clouddancer.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 23:40:01 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: What are the VM motivations?? In-Reply-To: <9h54u8$341$1@ns1.clouddancer.com> In-Reply-To: <20010624161502.4D75C784C4@mail.clouddancer.com> <9h54u8$341$1@ns1.clouddancer.com> Reply-To: klink@clouddancer.com Message-Id: <20010625034000.BB6BC784C4@mail.clouddancer.com> Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 20:40:00 -0700 (PDT) From: klink@clouddancer.com (Colonel) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In clouddancer.list.kernel, you wrote: > >On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Colonel wrote: > >> It's simple. I want the old reliable behavior back, the one I found >> in kernels from 1.1.41 thru 2.2.14. > >And which one would that be ? Note that there have been >4 different VM subsystems in that time and the kernel has >made the transition from the buffer cache to the page cache >in that period. Once again a typical Rik comment. Completely misses the point and picks something obscure to comment upon, after carefully removing the remaining text. PICK ONE! >Please make up your mind before making feature requests ;) Try OPENING yours. There really is a world beyond your nose. -- "Or heck, let's just make the VM a _real_ Neural Network, that self trains itself to the load you put on the system. Hideously complex and evil? Well, why not wire up that roach on the floor, eating that stale cheese doodle. It can't do any worse job on VM that some of the VM patches I've seen..." -- Jason McMullan ditto