From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Schmid Subject: Re: Still bug-hunting Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 21:04:12 +0100 Message-ID: <422A10BC.2060706@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> <422A0354.3080800@rapidforum.com> <20050305195712.GO31837@postel.suug.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "David S. Miller" , netdev@oss.sgi.com To: Thomas Graf In-Reply-To: <20050305195712.GO31837@postel.suug.ch> Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org 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.