Rik van Riel

Main Quotes Index

Issue #307, Section #5 (26 Apr 2005: Linus No Longer Using BitKeeper; Creates 'git' Replacement)
Issue #294, Section #2 (2 Feb 2005: Some Debate On The Development Model)
Issue #284, Section #5 (17 Nov 2004: Some Discussion Of The 2.6 Development Model)
Issue #284, Section #8 (17 Nov 2004: New Virtual cputime For Micro-Second Accounting)
Issue #283, Section #6 (6 Nov 2004: Forward-Porting 2.4 VM Out-Of-Memory Features To 2.6)
Issue #275, Section #8 (2 Oct 2004: Linux 2.6.8.1-mm2 Released; Includes Reiser4)
Issue #274, Section #9 (18 Sep 2004: RSS ulimit Enforcement For 2.6)
Issue #273, Section #5 (6 Sep 2004: Allowing Non-Root User To mlock Memory)
Issue #273, Section #6 (6 Sep 2004: Token-Based Thrashing Control)
Issue #273, Section #8 (6 Sep 2004: Linux 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Released)
Issue #263, Section #16 (14 Jun 2004: Kernel Mailing List Marked As Spammer By SpamCop)
Issue #256, Section #2 (2 Apr 2004: Proposal: A Layered Kernel)
Issue #254, Section #9 (19 Mar 2004: Module Debugging And Documentation)
Issue #251, Section #18 (9 Feb 2004: Kernel Sub-Project Mailing List Posting Policies)
Issue #251, Section #35 (9 Feb 2004: Cooperative Linux: Running Linux Under Windows And Other Systems)
Issue #248, Section #23 (20 Jan 2004: Fair Scheduling In 2.4)
Issue #244, Section #3 (8 Dec 2003: Linux 2.6.0-test11 Released; Andrew Morton Official Maintainer)
Issue #235, Section #8 (24 Oct 2003: Possible Linksys GPL Violations: The Saga Continues)
Issue #228, Section #4 (17 Aug 2003: Setting Per-User Resource Limits)
Issue #224, Section #4 (30 Jul 2003: Expected Changes From 2.4 To 2.6)
Issue #222, Section #4 (10 Jul 2003: Explanations Of Various Kernel Trees)
Issue #219, Section #10 (16 Jun 2003: procps Maintainership Still Contentious)
Issue #219, Section #15 (16 Jun 2003: Limits On Maximum Swap Space For 2.4 And 2.5)
Issue #208, Section #1 (7 Mar 2003: Minutes From Kernel Conference Call)
Issue #207, Section #5 (2 Mar 2003: Kernel Errata List)
Issue #207, Section #14 (2 Mar 2003: Some Users Unhappy With Kernel Code Written Under NDA)
Issue #206, Section #2 (23 Feb 2003: Accessing The BitKeeper Tree Without BitKeeper)
Issue #199, Section #5 (6 Jan 2003: Possible Violation Of GPL By TimeSys)
Issue #198, Section #6 (30 Dec 2002: Kernel IRC Discussions)
Issue #196, Section #15 (16 Dec 2002: procps 2.0.11 Released)
Issue #195, Section #5 (9 Dec 2002: Setting Per-User Resource Limits)
Issue #194, Section #18 (2 Dec 2002: Reverse-Mapping Virtual Memory Subsystem)
Issue #191, Section #9 (11 Nov 2002: New Open POSIX Test Suite)
Issue #190, Section #2 (28 Oct 2002: Hard-To-Track Bugs Caused By Obscure Global Symbols)
Issue #190, Section #6 (28 Oct 2002: Maintainers List)
Issue #189, Section #2 (20 Oct 2002: BitKeeper Licensing Discussion)
Issue #189, Section #4 (20 Oct 2002: procps Maintainership Conflict)
Issue #189, Section #10 (20 Oct 2002: Maintainer List)
Issue #187, Section #14 (6 Oct 2002: procps 2.0.8 Released)
Issue #186, Section #1 (29 Sep 2002: VM Subsystem Necessitating User-Space Changes; Favorite Kernel Trees)
Issue #185, Section #3 (22 Sep 2002: Status Of XFS In 2.5)
Issue #185, Section #8 (22 Sep 2002: Handling Out-Of-Memory Conditions)
Issue #185, Section #15 (22 Sep 2002: Maintainer List)
Issue #185, Section #18 (22 Sep 2002: Multiple kswapd Processes On A Single Machine)
Issue #185, Section #28 (22 Sep 2002: Benchmarking Tool 'contest' Version 0.30 Released)
Issue #184, Section #14 (15 Sep 2002: iowait Statistics Added To /proc/stat In 2.5)
Issue #182, Section #13 (1 Sep 2002: Status Of DRM Driver In 2.4 And 2.5)
Issue #181, Section #16 (25 Aug 2002: IDE Maintainership Troubles; IDE Work Delayed Until 2.7)
Issue #181, Section #23 (25 Aug 2002: Maintainer List)
Issue #181, Section #24 (25 Aug 2002: Status Of 2.4 Virtual Memory Subsystem)
Issue #180, Section #9 (18 Aug 2002: Daily Snapshots Of The Unstable Series)
Issue #180, Section #15 (18 Aug 2002: Maintainer List)
Issue #180, Section #23 (18 Aug 2002: VM Regress: Benchmarking The VM Subsystem)
Issue #178, Section #18 (4 Aug 2002: Help Sought For Linux Weekly News)
Issue #177, Section #2 (28 Jul 2002: Some Discussion Of The 2.6 Release Schedule)
Issue #177, Section #3 (28 Jul 2002: New VM Subsystem Lieutenant)
Issue #176, Section #7 (21 Jul 2002: Status Of Status)
Issue #175, Section #11 (14 Jul 2002: New rmap Patch For The VM Subsystem)
Issue #174, Section #3 (7 Jul 2002: #kernelnewbies Moves To A Different IRC Network)
Issue #168, Section #1 (26 May 2002: Status Of 2.5 VM, ext3, And IDE Code)
Issue #160, Section #4 (1 Apr 2002: SSSCA Discussion)
Issue #159, Section #2 (25 Mar 2002: Some Developers Unhappy With BitKeeper License)
Issue #158, Section #3 (18 Mar 2002: Seeking A Free Alternative To BitKeeper)
Issue #158, Section #4 (18 Mar 2002: Arranging BitKeeper Repositories)
Issue #157, Section #3 (11 Mar 2002: Handling Release Errors)
Issue #156, Section #1 (4 Mar 2001: Developers Impressed By Changelog; Developer Conflict)
Issue #156, Section #5 (4 Mar 2001: BitKeeper: The Saga Continues)
Issue #156, Section #8 (4 Mar 2001: Microkernel)
Issue #155, Section #7 (25 Feb 2002: XFS And rmap)
Issue #155, Section #8 (25 Feb 2002: BitKeeper Wrangling)
Issue #154, Section #3 (18 Feb 2002: Linus Continues BitKeeper Test)
Issue #153, Section #4 (11 Feb 2002: VM Subsystem Documentation)
Issue #153, Section #9 (11 Feb 2002: Linus Gives BitKeeper A Test Run)
Issue #152, Section #3 (28 Jan 2002: Status Of 2.5)
Issue #149, Section #1 (7 Jan 2002: The Scheduler; Development Philosophy; IRC)
Issue #149, Section #2 (7 Jan 2002: Some Discussion Of Development Philosophy)
Issue #149, Section #9 (7 Jan 2002: New 2.4 Fork)
Issue #149, Section #10 (7 Jan 2002: Comparing 2.4 With 2.2)
Issue #147, Section #1 (24 Dec 2001: The VM Subsystem: The Saga Continues)
Issue #147, Section #5 (24 Dec 2001: Some Discussion Of Linus' Development Philosophy)
Issue #147, Section #6 (24 Dec 2001: Developer Unhappiness With Linus)
Issue #146, Section #1 (17 Dec 2001: Coding Style; Development Philosophy)
Issue #144, Section #4 (3 Dec 2001: Marcelo Takes Over 2.4)
Issue #144, Section #6 (3 Dec 2001: Suggestions For Marcelo)
Issue #141, Section #3 (12 Nov 2001: Andrea's VM Code Performs Better Than Rik's)
Issue #141, Section #5 (12 Nov 2001: Comparing The 2.2 And 2.4 Virtual Memory Subsystems)
Issue #140, Section #1 (5 Nov 2001: Al Viro Planning To Fork devfs)
Issue #140, Section #3 (5 Nov 2001: More Discussion Of Compile-Time VM Selection)
Issue #140, Section #5 (5 Nov 2001: Alan Leans Toward Andrea's VM)
Issue #139, Section #3 (29 Oct 2001: More Discussion Of The VM Subsystem)
Issue #138, Section #3 (22 Oct 2001: Comparing The Two Virtual Memory Subsystems)
Issue #138, Section #6 (22 Oct 2001: More Discussion Of The VM Changes In 2.4)
Issue #137, Section #1 (15 Oct 2001: Journalled Filesystem Recommendations)
Issue #137, Section #2 (15 Oct 2001: More Discussion Of VM Politics)
Issue #136, Section #2 (8 Oct 2001: Benchmarks And Bug Reports In The New 2.4 VM)
Issue #136, Section #6 (8 Oct 2001: Work Still Being Done On The Old VM In The -ac Tree)
Issue #135, Section #2 (1 Oct 2001: Some Discussion Of 2.4 Virtual Memory Subsystem)
Issue #135, Section #4 (1 Oct 2001: Virtual Memory Subsystem Rewritten In 2.4!)
Issue #135, Section #11 (1 Oct 2001: U.S. Anti-Terrorism Laws)
Issue #133, Section #5 (17 Sep 2001: Developers Respond To Question About Binary-Only Code)
Issue #126, Section #6 (16 Jul 2001: Per-Process Memory Limits)
Issue #125, Section #3 (9 Jul 2001: Some Patch Confusion)
Issue #123, Section #5 (25 Jun 2001: Linux 2.4.6-pre3)
Issue #120, Section #5 (28 May 2001: Device Numbers; Developer Discontent)
Issue #118, Section #7 (14 May 2001: Hot-Swapping CPUs And RAM)
Issue #115, Section #1 (23 Apr 2001: linux-kernel Spam Filter Debate)
Issue #114, Section #10 (16 Apr 2001: Major System Slowdown Reproducible Under 2.4.3)
Issue #113, Section #6 (30 Mar 2001: Amount Of Swap To Use In 2.4)
Issue #111, Section #1 (16 Mar 2001: Patch To Improve Virtual Memory Throughput)
Issue #111, Section #9 (16 Mar 2001: Still Not Ready For 2.5)
Issue #110, Section #6 (9 Mar 2001: Mosix In The Standard Kernel)
Issue #109, Section #10 (2 Mar 2001: 2.4 VM Improvement Over 2.2; Status Of VM)
Issue #108, Section #4 (23 Feb 2001: The VM Subsystem In 2.4)
Issue #106, Section #14 (9 Feb 2001: Linux-MM Subsystem Uses Bugzilla)
Issue #104, Section #2 (26 Jan 2001: Greater 2.4 Swap Requirements)
Issue #104, Section #3 (26 Jan 2001: Dealing With Spammers)
Issue #104, Section #11 (26 Jan 2001: 2.4 Series Changelogs)
Issue #103, Section #4 (19 Jan 2001: Driver Submission Policy For 2.2)
Issue #103, Section #6 (19 Jan 2001: MM/VM Todo List)
Issue #103, Section #9 (19 Jan 2001: Patch Submission Policy For 2.4)
Issue #103, Section #10 (19 Jan 2001: Bug In 2.4.0 Virtual Memory Subsystem)
Issue #102, Section #2 (12 Jan 2001: Tove)
Issue #102, Section #9 (12 Jan 2001: ac Patches Against 2.4.0-prerelease)
Issue #102, Section #10 (12 Jan 2001: Rik And Andrea: As The Saga Turns)
Issue #102, Section #11 (12 Jan 2001: Preemption Patch For 2.4.0-prerelease)
Issue #102, Section #25 (12 Jan 2001: "VM: do_try_to_free_pages" Lockups: The Saga Ends Peacefully)
Issue #101, Section #4 (8 Jan 2001: Repetive Strain Injuries)
Issue #101, Section #5 (8 Jan 2001: PowerPC Tree Out Of Date)
Issue #100, Section #4 (1 Jan 2001: kapmd Hogging The CPU: The Saga Continues)
Issue #99, Section #2 (25 Dec 2000: linux-kernel News Gateway Problems)
Issue #99, Section #11 (25 Dec 2000: Possible Linux Trademark Violation By Sun)
Issue #98, Section #15 (18 Dec 2000: Running 'swapoff' On Deleted Swapfile)
Issue #97, Section #1 (11 Dec 2000: Fix For Longtime 2.2 Virtual Memory Bug)
Issue #94, Section #3 (20 Nov 2000: Approaching 2.4.0)
Issue #94, Section #8 (20 Nov 2000: Getting Started With Kernel Code)
Issue #92, Section #3 (6 Nov 2000: Cleaning Up Internal Data Structures)
Issue #91, Section #6 (30 Oct 2000: 'OOM Killer' Code Evaluation)
Issue #91, Section #14 (30 Oct 2000: Virtual Memory Subsystem Still Shaky)
Issue #90, Section #2 (23 Oct 2000: Low Latency Patch For 2.4.0-test9)
Issue #90, Section #3 (23 Oct 2000: VM Looking Good; 'OOM Killer' Discussion)
Issue #89, Section #1 (16 Oct 2000: 'soft updates', Journalling, Crashing Virtual Machines; Linus On Current VM vs. Classzone)
Issue #89, Section #2 (16 Oct 2000: Assigning 'nice' Values For Disk And Network Activity)
Issue #89, Section #3 (16 Oct 2000: Virtual Memory Saga Continues)
Issue #89, Section #4 (16 Oct 2000: Pressure On The New VM)
Issue #89, Section #14 (16 Oct 2000: First Pre-Release Before 2.4.0-test10)
Issue #88, Section #2 (9 Oct 2000: The Return Of 'classzone': The VM Saga Continues)
Issue #88, Section #6 (9 Oct 2000: Linux On AlphaServer GS320)
Issue #88, Section #8 (9 Oct 2000: More VM Fixes)
Issue #88, Section #11 (9 Oct 2000: Microsoft Withdraws Linux NTFS Threats)
Issue #87, Section #6 (2 Oct 2000: Keeping Reserve Pages Available In The New VM)
Issue #87, Section #8 (2 Oct 2000: Getting Very Close To 2.4.0)
Issue #87, Section #9 (2 Oct 2000: Deadlock Hiding In New VM)
Issue #87, Section #11 (2 Oct 2000: New VM May Not Make It Into 2.4)
Issue #86, Section #1 (25 Sep 2000: Reaching For Full Preemption)
Issue #86, Section #6 (25 Sep 2000: NFS In 2.2?)
Issue #86, Section #9 (25 Sep 2000: Using Netware Elevator Ideas In Linux)
Issue #86, Section #12 (25 Sep 2000: VM Patches Looking Good)
Issue #86, Section #15 (25 Sep 2000: New VM Goes In 2.4: The Saga Heats Up)
Issue #85, Section #2 (18 Sep 2000: VM Patches Shaping Up, But Still Not Ready)
Issue #85, Section #3 (18 Sep 2000: Positive Reports On The Latest VM Patches)
Issue #85, Section #7 (18 Sep 2000: Still Swatting Filesystem Corruption Bug(s))
Issue #83, Section #1 (5 Sep 2000: 2.4 SMP Scalability)
Issue #82, Section #8 (28 Aug 2000: More On OOM, Resource Accounting, And The New VM)
Issue #81, Section #1 (21 Aug 2000: Ramdisks, Compression, Embedded Systems, Loopback, And The VM Situation)
Issue #81, Section #4 (21 Aug 2000: VM Design Dispute)
Issue #80, Section #10 (14 Aug 2000: Twisted VM Tweaking)
Issue #80, Section #13 (14 Aug 2000: VM Hangs On For 2.5)
Issue #79, Section #11 (7 Aug 2000: Simulating SMP Under UP Systems)
Issue #78, Section #4 (31 Jul 2000: Japanese-Encoded Spam And linux-kernel Policy)
Issue #77, Section #1 (24 Jul 2000: New Plans For the Virtual Memory Subsystem)
Issue #77, Section #3 (24 Jul 2000: Per-User Resource Limits Planned For 2.5)
Issue #77, Section #7 (24 Jul 2000: Improving The Kernel Release Schedule)
Issue #77, Section #10 (24 Jul 2000: Band-Aids On Virtual Memory While New Design Coalesces)
Issue #76, Section #5 (17 Jul 2000: Killing Processes When Out Of Memory)
Issue #76, Section #12 (17 Jul 2000: Latency Benchmarks And Prognosis)
Issue #75, Section #6 (10 Jul 2000: Kernel Documentation Project)
Issue #74, Section #4 (3 Jul 2000: 'kswapd' Still No Solution)
Issue #74, Section #10 (3 Jul 2000: Hunting For The 'kswapd' Problem)
Issue #74, Section #11 (3 Jul 2000: Virtual Memory Opponents Work Together)
Issue #74, Section #12 (3 Jul 2000: More On VM: 'classzone' Better In Benchmarks)
Issue #73, Section #9 (26 Jun 2000: Developers Discuss Microsoft)
Issue #73, Section #11 (26 Jun 2000: Developers Argue Over Virtual Memory: 'classzone' Vs. 'strict zone')
Issue #73, Section #13 (26 Jun 2000: Alan's Latest List Of Things To Do Before 2.4 Can Come Out)
Issue #73, Section #14 (26 Jun 2000: Dell Binary-Only Drivers May Go Open Source)
Issue #73, Section #15 (26 Jun 2000: Possible Solution For Recent VM CPU Hogging)
Issue #72, Section #2 (19 Jun 2000: Alan Releases 2.4.0-test1-ac7)
Issue #72, Section #6 (19 Jun 2000: More VM Bug Hunting)
Issue #72, Section #7 (19 Jun 2000: To Do List For Next Unstable Series)
Issue #72, Section #12 (19 Jun 2000: Standardizing Journalling Filesystem Interactions With Virtual Memory)
Issue #70, Section #2 (5 Jun 2000: Things To Do Before 2.4: Saga Continues)
Issue #70, Section #5 (5 Jun 2000: The LKBS Linux Kernel Benchmark Suite)
Issue #70, Section #7 (5 Jun 2000: Virtual Memory: Linux Vs. BSD)
Issue #69, Section #6 (29 May 2000: Possible Fix For 'kswapd' CPU Overuse)
Issue #68, Section #5 (22 May 2000: Virtual Memory Problems Persist In Development Series)
Issue #67, Section #12 (15 May 2000: VMWare Breaks Under Latest Development Kernels)
Issue #66, Section #3 (8 May 2000: 'kswapd' Instability; Debugging Deadlocks)
Issue #65, Section #2 (1 May 2000: Proposal: LUID For Secure Auditing)
Issue #65, Section #4 (1 May 2000: Unexplained Memory Overuse In Development Kernels)
Issue #64, Section #8 (24 Apr 2000: Benchmarks Comparing Linux And NT)
Issue #62, Section #6 (10 Apr 2000: kswapd Speedups)
Issue #62, Section #10 (10 Apr 2000: New Scheduler Code; Locking Issues)
Issue #61, Section #1 (3 Apr 2000: Possibly Unfixable, Longtime Denial Of Service Attack)
Issue #60, Section #1 (27 Mar 2000: Alan Nears 2.2.16)
Issue #59, Section #7 (20 Mar 2000: Scheduling Difficulties Under Linux)
Issue #55, Section #4 (21 Feb 2000: e2fs Compression In The Main Kernel?)
Issue #55, Section #6 (21 Feb 2000: Character I/O Problems With SMP In Stable Series)
Issue #55, Section #7 (21 Feb 2000: Development Process And Corporate Politics)
Issue #55, Section #10 (21 Feb 2000: Running User-Space Helper Programs)
Issue #55, Section #11 (21 Feb 2000: Bug Hunt In Unstable Series)
Issue #52, Section #3 (24 Jan 2000: Block Device Interface Change And Related Pain)
Issue #51, Section #4 (18 Jan 2000: Swapping Via NFS)
Issue #49, Section #4 (3 Jan 2000: How To Be A Kernel Hacker)
Issue #46, Section #1 (13 Dec 1999: Google Bug Hunt)
Issue #44, Section #8 (22 Nov 1999: Splitting The Kernel Source Into More Manageable Chunks)
Issue #43, Section #5 (15 Nov 1999: Mirroring Via The Buffer Cache)
Issue #41, Section #1 (1 Nov 1999: File Server Optimization Discussion)
Issue #41, Section #8 (1 Nov 1999: New Hardware Mailing List; Some Discussion Of The 810 Graphics Chipset)
Issue #40, Section #1 (25 Oct 1999: SMP CPU-Binding Discussion)
Issue #39, Section #2 (18 Oct 1999: 'Fuck' Removed From Kernel Docs)
Issue #39, Section #6 (18 Oct 1999: Microsoft's Attack Discussed)
Issue #35, Section #7 (20 Sep 1999: DMA Memory Allocation)
Issue #32, Section #14 (27 Aug 1999: Threads In Linux)
Issue #31, Section #9 (19 Aug 1999: Code Freeze; ISDN Perennial Lateness)
Issue #30, Section #2 (5 Aug 1999: TCP Vegas Patch Announced)
Issue #29, Section #2 (29 Jul 1999: Handling Out-Of-Memory Conditions)
Issue #28, Section #23 (22 Jul 1999: WANTED: Co-maintainer(s) For Linux-MM Site)
Issue #25, Section #4 (1 Jul 1999: The Future Of OS Design)
Issue #23, Section #5 (17 Jun 1999: Unfixable TCP Slowdown?)
Issue #20, Section #3 (27 May 1999: 'rm' Too Slow)
Issue #20, Section #5 (27 May 1999: Debate Over 'goto' In Source)
Issue #19, Section #1 (20 May 1999: Attempted Scheduler Improvements)
Issue #19, Section #12 (20 May 1999: Most Stable Kernel In The Stable Series)
Issue #18, Section #6 (13 May 1999: Memory Map Problems Interfering With CD Recording)
Issue #17, Section #1 (6 May 1999: Responses To Mindcraft)
Issue #16, Section #3 (29 Apr 1999: Scheduling Optimization Attempt)
Issue #12, Section #9 (1 Apr 1999: 2.2.4 Announcement; Linus Vacation; Start Of Kernel Newsflash Web Page)
Issue #11, Section #3 (27 Mar 1999: Out Of Memory Errors With Plenty Of Unused Swap In 2.2.x)
Issue #10, Section #26 (18 Mar 1999: Advansys ABP940UW Shaky In 2.2.x)
Issue #8, Section #2 (4 Mar 1999: Real-Time Scheduling Flame War)
Issue #5, Section #1 (11 Feb 1999: Capabilities And ACLs)
Issue #5, Section #4 (11 Feb 1999: 2.2.1 Slowdown And Bug Hunt)
Issue #5, Section #9 (11 Feb 1999: Process Scheduling)
Issue #4, Section #1 (4 Feb 1999: Philosophy Of The Stable Series)
Issue #2, Section #7 (21 Jan 1999: Scheduling Discussion)

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