Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Linux and lots of memory: documentation? | Date | 19 Dec 1998 10:08:37 GMT |
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Followup to: <19981219115249.A7778@caffeine.ix.net.nz> By author: Chris Wedgwood <cw@ix.net.nz> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 08:10:58PM +0000, Riley Williams wrote: > > > If it is a 'done' patch, why isnae it in 2.1.131ac13 ??? > > Because too many people twiddle with it, their kernel broken and > presumable Linus got too many "Dear Linus, you probalby don't know > this, but my kernel can't build. Please help me. Love luser" > > > If so, why was it taken out of the kernel? > > Because people are dumb >
The problem was that people thought that they could (should) set it to a tiny value if they had a small amount of RAM. I suggest it should be made a multiple-choice CONFIG option instead of a numeric field, OR it should be a numeric fields but the unit be gigabytes.
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