Re: Break 2.4 VM in five easy steps

[Derek Glidden]

Miles Lane wrote:
> 
> So please, if you have new facts that you want to offer that
> will help us characterize and understand these VM issues better
> or discover new problems, feel free to share them.  But if you
> just want to rant, I, for one, would rather you didn't.

*sigh*

Not to prolong an already pointless thread, but that really was the
intent of my original message.  I had figured out a specific way, with
easy-to-follow steps, to make the VM misbehave under very certain
conditions.  I even offered to help figure out a solution in any way I
could, considering I'm not familiar with kernel code.

However, I guess this whole "too much swap" issue has a lot of people on
edge and immediately assumed I was talking about this subject, without
actually reading my original message.

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