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From: Christian Schmid <webmaster@rapidforum.com>
To: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Still bug-hunting
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 21:04:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <422A10BC.2060706@rapidforum.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050305195712.GO31837@postel.suug.ch>

Thomas Graf wrote:
> * Christian Schmid <422A0354.3080800@rapidforum.com> 2005-03-05 20:07
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> It's quite simple, provide a test case and someone will start looking
> into the problem (given there is one). The information you provided so far
> is quite vague, it would be pure luck to spot the bug. You have do
> understand that looking into such a bug may cost dozens of hours or days if
> it can't be reproduced by the person. Nobody does this without at least very
> strong evidences that the bug actually exists and your appereance so
> far didn't help too much I guess.

I just asked for a way how to change the dynamic memory-allocation for buffers to a static one. I 
dont think that this is much work and is a quite direct task.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-05 20:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-05 17:57 Still bug-hunting Christian Schmid
2005-03-05 18:29 ` David S. Miller
     [not found]   ` <4229FC15.3070408@rapidforum.com>
     [not found]     ` <20050305104854.45106335.davem@davemloft.net>
2005-03-05 18:54       ` Christian Schmid
2005-03-05 18:57         ` David S. Miller
2005-03-05 19:07           ` Christian Schmid
2005-03-05 19:57             ` Thomas Graf
2005-03-05 20:04               ` Christian Schmid [this message]
2005-03-05 20:32                 ` Francois Romieu
2005-03-05 20:40                   ` Christian Schmid
2005-03-05 21:22                     ` Francois Romieu

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