From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Nov 7 15:39:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mailtoaster1.pipeline.ch (mailtoaster1.pipeline.ch [62.48.0.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7498037B4CF for ; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:39:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 83541 invoked from network); 7 Nov 2000 23:38:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO telehouse.ch) ([62.48.0.53]) (envelope-sender ) by mailtoaster1.pipeline.ch (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 7 Nov 2000 23:38:08 -0000 Message-ID: <3A0892BB.4F399708@telehouse.ch> Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 00:39:39 +0100 From: Andre Oppermann X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Saab Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Green/Yellow/Red state for the VM system. References: <28041.973635706@critter> <3A088D1B.96157C0D@telehouse.ch> <20001107153343.A24788@elvis.mu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Paul Saab wrote: > > Andre Oppermann (oppermann@telehouse.ch) wrote: > > > > I don't think this is necessary at all after Matt's and Paul's code > > being commited. Why? Because the box would not wedge solid or panic > > anymore. > > I wouldn't make such a bold statement.. We find all sorts of interesting > bugs on a daily basis and I would bet money we'll find another way to > lockup the system. OK, but would the right solution be to simply make more memory available? I doubt it. A bug is a bug and needs to be fixed not to be masked. Eventually it would fail just in a different place. -- Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message