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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>,
	David Luyer <david_luyer@pacific.net.au>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: /proc/<n>/maps growing...
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 10:17:02 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108061015450.8972-100000@penguin.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010806070124.J3862@devserv.devel.redhat.com>


On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
>
> Even worse, it means people not using -ac kernels cannot malloc a lot of
> memory but by recompiling the kernel.

Hey guys. Let's calm down a bit, and look at the problem.

Why the hell is glibc doing something so stupid in the first place? Yes,
we can work around it, but it sounds like the glibc apporoach is slow and
stupid even if we _did_ work around it. Mind explaining what the logic of
"fixing" the kernel is?

		Linus


  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-08-06 17:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-06  6:41 /proc/<n>/maps growing David Luyer
2001-08-06  7:43 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-06  8:59 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-08-06 10:30   ` Jakub Jelinek
2001-08-06 10:49     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-08-06 11:01       ` Jakub Jelinek
2001-08-06 11:25         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-08-06 17:17         ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2001-08-06 17:26           ` Alan Cox
2001-08-06 22:55             ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-06 11:16       ` Jakub Jelinek
2001-08-06 17:18       ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-06  9:20 ` David S. Miller
2001-08-06  9:46   ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-06 10:57   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-08-06 12:26     ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-06 12:36       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-08-06 12:45         ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-06 12:50           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-08-06 13:06           ` David S. Miller
2001-08-06 13:29             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-08-06 17:27               ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-03 15:44                 ` mmap-rb-7 [was Re: /proc/<n>/maps growing...] Andrea Arcangeli
2001-08-06 17:20         ` /proc/<n>/maps growing Linus Torvalds
2001-08-07  2:24           ` David Luyer
2001-08-06 17:46         ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-08-06 16:12   ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-06 17:46     ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-07  3:46 Rick Hohensee

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