From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Schmid Subject: Re: Still bug-hunting Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 20:07:00 +0100 Message-ID: <422A0354.3080800@rapidforum.com> References: <4229F2EC.8090103@rapidforum.com> <20050305102918.15fd422c.davem@davemloft.net> <4229FC15.3070408@rapidforum.com> <20050305104854.45106335.davem@davemloft.net> <422A0079.4080806@rapidforum.com> <20050305105706.2c8a6975.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com To: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20050305105706.2c8a6975.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Actually we are a company and the big ones decided to buy new servers to work-around this bug. This is a common technique in companies. I say this sucks and thats why I experienced in our production system in order to give linux something back by reporting and helping to fix a bug which only appears on big systems. I do not understand why you start flaming at me. David S. Miller wrote: > On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 19:54:49 +0100 > Christian Schmid wrote: > > >>You as an expert should know that this is no one-liner. It is a very complex server with >>multiplexing and forking like Apache. I dont feel like writing an apache-like program just for >>testing. I hope you understand that I prefered investing my time in acutally searching the bug and >>now its found. Now I hope that you can fix it or at least tell me your ideas. > > > You could give us the program you actually used, no writing > necessary. Obviously you had this program, else you wouldn't > have anything to report at all. > > There's nothing "to write", you have it already by implication. > > Instead, you told us "do something like this, or that" and lots > of vague statements and brief incomplete code snippets, then > expect us to figure out how the magic beans work and fix your > problem. > > And you want respect and help from us? :-) > >