Re: [patch] hashtable sizes for icache and dcache

Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr)
Thu, 23 Sep 1999 21:28:34 +0200 (MET DST)


On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, David S. Miller wrote:

> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 16:30:09 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
>
> I am not proposing a cappy band aid that will make mess and it will
> be hard to remove. I am _only_ tuning by hand the hash for the most
> machines that are running 2.3.18ac8 _right_now_.
>
> Several of the core developers are running 2.3.x _right_now_ with 4mb
> and 8mb of memory, therefore your changes are doubly unacceptable even
> by your own arguments for it.

Checking that 2.3.x works reasonnably with low memory configuration is
indeed fine. But developping with so few memory looks like masochism
exacerbation. Are these core developpers also flogged, each time they
provide a bug? ;-)

Gérard.

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