On 2014-06-27 04:11, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
El 26/06/14 21:50, Carlos E. R. escribió:
Sometimes the admin may know things that the kernel does not :-)
Have you seen the kernel memory management code ?
Not really, no. I'm sure they know a lot more than me, and things have changed a lot since I studied such things :-)
I am very skeptical about that statement.. kernel developers have gone into excruciating pain tuning the implementation to deal with the most obscure, corner cases you can imagine.. it almost always knows better.
Most often it does, I agree. Then I see reports of people with computers that become useless when copying a large directory to/from an external usb disk. That should not happen. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)