[CentOS] Swap: typical rehash. Why?

William L. Maltby BillsCentOS at triad.rr.com
Mon Jun 5 21:25:27 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 18:14 -0300, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
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> On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 05:00:52PM -0400, William L. Maltby wrote:
> > I can't resist. Read the thread that was pointed to on lkml. ROTFLMAO.
> > 
> > *Real* UNIX addressed these problems long ago. I guess the "Gurus"
> > suffer from NIH (Not Invented Here) syndrome.
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> > The "Gurus" need to learn something my father taught me. "A smart man
> > learns from his mistakes. A wise man learns from the mistakes of
> > others". I'm really smart. :-(  And, apparently, so are the "Gurus". To
> > think they have VM this long and no one has thought to swipe these good
> > ideas from real UNIX. And they're still argueing about all that as if it
> > has never been hashed out and addressed before.
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> Well Bill, I'm sure they will be happy to receive a patch from you,
> with a new VM implementation that actually works (including for SMP
> machines, and multiple platforms).
> 
> No ? Well, talk is cheap, isn't it ?

Yep. And so is baiting snide commentary. I did my stint and now only
write code that I want to. And tolerate idiocy only as I desire. And
comment as I see fit. And laugh at irony. And ... well, it doesn't
matter does it.

Having worked on *IX systems since 1978, I've gained an appreciation for
some of the alternatives. And the methods used to accomplish things.

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Bill
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