From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 16 19:18:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA25237 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 19:18:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA25230 for ; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 19:18:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA20697; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 20:17:32 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id UAA04040; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 20:17:30 -0600 Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 20:17:30 -0600 Message-Id: <199808170217.UAA04040@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: dg@root.com Cc: Terry Lambert , current@FreeBSD.ORG, karl@mcs.net Subject: Re: Better VM patches (was Tentative fix for VM bug) In-Reply-To: <199808161506.IAA02398@implode.root.com> References: <199808161431.HAA16709@usr08.primenet.com> <199808161506.IAA02398@implode.root.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Greenman writes: > I have a suggestion. Let's not throw out random guesses about what may or > may not be a problem. Let's actually understand the issue thoroghly, come up > with a fix, and then tell people all about it. Actually, I'm with Terry here. I think throwing out random guesses is a *much* better solution than what's occurred so far. At least this way folks have a clue about what *might* be going on, and some of the 'random guesses' may trigger someone's mind. This is how *real* companies work on complex problems, and how the state of the art progresses. (Though I'd replace the term 'random' with 'educated', but still leave the term 'guess' in the mix.) The lack of progress on these bugs from the kernel hackers until Terry makes up an 'educated guess' seems to be a good motivator. :) ;) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message