RE: why swap at all?

["Buddy Lumpkin" <b.lumpkin@comcast.net>]

I have no bug to report.

-----Original Message-----
From: Denis Vlasenko [mailto:vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 3:45 AM
To: Buddy Lumpkin; 'William Lee Irwin III'
Cc: orders@nodivisions.com; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: why swap at all?

On Wednesday 26 May 2004 11:30, 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.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

He was asking for proper bugreport.

Preparing bug report:
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Oops: decode it with ksymoops (or use 2.6 with kksymoops enabled ;).
Unkillable process: Alt-SysRq-T and ksymoops relevant part.
Yes it means you should have ksymoops installed and tested,
which is easy to get wrong. I've done that too often.
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