Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 01:21:06 -0700 From: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: Ted Faber <faber@isi.edu>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2) Message-ID: <19990714012106.E55060@001101.zer0.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.10.9907141740340.11214-100000@bragg>; from Kris Kennaway on Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 05:43:21PM %2B0930 References: <199907140017.RAA05545@boreas.isi.edu> <Pine.OSF.4.10.9907141740340.11214-100000@bragg>
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On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 05:43:21PM +0930, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > You know, it occurred to me that with all the time wasted typing up messages > in this thread someone (e.g. Matt) could have instead coded up a simple > non-overcommit model, given it to the nay-sayers and said "Run this and see > what I mean about making your system unusable" :-) Or with all the time that Matt wasted typing up messages in this thread, he could have been putting forth his efforts in some worthwhile direction. Now will y'all either do your research and come up with some hard numbers, or kill this poor thread so people can go back to doing their work? (Or in short, put up or shut up.) Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter "Software is like sex; it's better mailto:gsutter@pobox.com when it's free." -- Linus Torvalds http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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