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.
next prev parent 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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