From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 2 08:13:49 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A76A537B401 for ; Sat, 2 Aug 2003 08:13:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.yadt.co.uk (yadt.demon.co.uk [158.152.4.134]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BEE8C43F75 for ; Sat, 2 Aug 2003 08:13:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from davidt@yadt.co.uk) Received: (qmail 59200 invoked from network); 2 Aug 2003 15:13:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.gattaca.yadt.co.uk) (@10.0.0.2) by yadt.demon.co.uk with SMTP; 2 Aug 2003 15:13:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 60789 invoked by uid 1000); 2 Aug 2003 15:13:43 -0000 Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2003 16:13:42 +0100 From: David Taylor To: Andy Farkas Message-ID: <20030802151342.GA9426@gattaca.yadt.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Andy Farkas , arch@freebsd.org References: <10872.1059835176@critter.freebsd.dk> <20030803004026.X41132-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030803004026.X41132-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: headsup: swap_pager.c X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2003 15:13:49 -0000 On Sun, 03 Aug 2003, Andy Farkas wrote: > Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > > Well, if I didn't think it would change anything, I surely wouldn't > > be doing it. > > > > Andy, you're on your own from here, I have better ways to use my time. > > Rebuttal accepted. Thanks for explaining, not. If all the committers had to explain every commit to everyone who decided that they couldn't see any particular benefit in the change, they would spend their entire lives arguing with people on mailing lists about different ways of doing things. The change makes the code cleaner by removing the bogus vnode which has now been explained by rwatson. It also saves RAM without limiting you to one swap device. You have come up with 0 reasons why making the change would actually be a bad thing, other than "I can't see any problems in the code I don't understand[1] so don't change it." Why, exactly, should anyone waste their time listening to your (or my) vague opinions of this change? Also, in a pinch, I'm sure you could do something with mdconfig and create a swap file on your disk, and use that as emergency swap-space, rather than having to fit a new physical disk. [1] You've spent the last 5 posts asking for explainations of the code, so I assume, like me, you don't particularly understand the internals of the code. -- David Taylor davidt@yadt.co.uk "The future just ain't what it used to be"