Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable

yodaiken
2002-01-12T22:16:46Z

On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 09:42:26PM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > > Because the IRIX implementation sucks, every implementation has to suck?
> > > Somehow I have the suspicion you're trying to discourage everyone from
> > > even trying, because if he'd succeeded you'd loose a big chunk of
> > > potential RTLinux customers.
> >
> > Victor has had the same message for years, as have others like Larry McVoy
> > (in fact if Larry and Victor agree on something its unusual enough to
> > remember). So I can vouch for the fact Victor hasn't changed his tune from
> > before rtlinux was ever any real commercial toy. I think you owe him an
> > apology.
>
> Did I really say something that bad? I would be actually surprised, if
> Victor wouldn't act in the best interest of his company. The other
> possibility is that Victor must have had such a terrible experience with
> IRIX, so that he thinks any attempts to add better soft realtime or even
> hard realtime capabilities (not just as addon) must be doomed to fail.

Well, how about a third possibility - that I see a problem you have not
seen and that you should try to argue on technical terms instead of psychoanlyzing
me or looking for financial motives?

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