Andrea Arcangeli

Main Quotes Index

Issue #330, Section #6 (3�Oct�2005:�Linux 2.4.32-rc1 Released)
Issue #326, Section #6 (5�Sep�2005:�Monitoring Kernel Use Among Consenting Users)
Issue #319, Section #9 (28�Aug�2005:�Summary Of Recent RT Patch Acceptance Discussion)
Issue #307, Section #5 (26�Apr�2005:�Linus No Longer Using BitKeeper; Creates 'git' Replacement)
Issue #298, Section #2 (6�Mar�2005:�New scrubd Page Zeroing Daemon)
Issue #296, Section #6 (12�Feb�2005:�Some Debate Over OOM Killer Future)
Issue #293, Section #1 (9�Jan�2005:�Forward Porting Some Big-RAM VM Fixes From 2.4 To 2.6)
Issue #291, Section #2 (4�Jan�2005:�Dynamically Defined HZ Value Coming To 2.6)
Issue #287, Section #2 (1�Jan�2005:�Out-Of-Memory Killer: Hunting For The Proper Layer)
Issue #284, Section #2 (17�Nov�2004:�Status Of 'arch' Revision Control For The Kernel)
Issue #283, Section #6 (6�Nov�2004:�Forward-Porting 2.4 VM Out-Of-Memory Features To 2.6)
Issue #273, Section #5 (6�Sep�2004:�Allowing Non-Root User To mlock Memory)
Issue #264, Section #18 (25�Jun�2004:�Linux 2.6.7-rc1; Developer Concern Over Destablization)
Issue #263, Section #9 (14�Jun�2004:�Automatic Bug Checker Reveals Some Kernel Holes)
Issue #260, Section #1 (5�Jun�2004:�Speeding Up SATA)
Issue #260, Section #5 (5�Jun�2004:�New disable-cap-mlock() sysctl)
Issue #245, Section #3 (14�Dec�2003:�Status Of Andrea's VM Contributions In 2.4)
Issue #245, Section #6 (14�Dec�2003:�Status Of OOM Killer In 2.4)
Issue #242, Section #2 (24�Nov�2003:�kernel.bkbits.net Down For Security Reasons; arch Proposed As BitKeeper Alternative)
Issue #235, Section #3 (24�Oct�2003:�More BitKeeper Debate; 'Arch' A Potential Replacement)
Issue #234, Section #1 (6�Oct�2003:�Status Of Large Memory Support)
Issue #234, Section #2 (6�Oct�2003:�BitMover Asks Kernel Developers To Stop Complaining About BitKeeper)
Issue #234, Section #7 (6�Oct�2003:�More Threats From BitMover)
Issue #230, Section #7 (9�Sep�2003:�Linux 2.4.22 Released; 2.4.23 Contemplated)
Issue #227, Section #1 (11�Aug�2003:�Progress Toward 2.4.22; Problems With BitKeeper Gateway; Mysterious Kernel Lockups)
Issue #222, Section #4 (10�Jul�2003:�Explanations Of Various Kernel Trees)
Issue #211, Section #1 (30�Mar�2003:�BK->CVS Real-Time Mirror)
Issue #210, Section #1 (23�Mar�2003:�BitBucket: A BitKeeper Competitor; Version Control Discussion)
Issue #210, Section #25 (23�Mar�2003:�cvsps Project To Support BitKeeper Metadata In CVS)
Issue #207, Section #19 (2�Mar�2003:�Mailing List Statistics)
Issue #206, Section #2 (23�Feb�2003:�Accessing The BitKeeper Tree Without BitKeeper)
Issue #205, Section #15 (14�Feb�2003:�Experiments In Disk I/O Scheduling)
Issue #190, Section #6 (28�Oct�2002:�Maintainers List)
Issue #189, Section #10 (20�Oct�2002:�Maintainer List)
Issue #185, Section #15 (22�Sep�2002:�Maintainer List)
Issue #184, Section #25 (15�Sep�2002:�Linux Test Project 20020910 Released)
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 #15 (18�Aug�2002:�Maintainer List)
Issue #176, Section #4 (21�Jul�2002:�Seeking Stable Kernels)
Issue #168, Section #1 (26�May�2002:�Status Of 2.5 VM, ext3, And IDE Code)
Issue #167, Section #1 (19�May�2002:�khttpd Leaving The Kernel; Tux Possibly Going In)
Issue #162, Section #2 (14�Apr�2002:�Kernel Licensing Discussion)
Issue #158, Section #5 (18�Mar�2002:�Status Of Asymmetric Multi-Processing Support)
Issue #153, Section #3 (11�Feb�2002:�VM Update And Benchmarks)
Issue #153, Section #4 (11�Feb�2002:�VM Subsystem Documentation)
Issue #149, Section #8 (7�Jan�2002:�Alan Continues 2.2 Maintenance)
Issue #148, Section #4 (31�Dec�2001:�VM Subsystem Fixes In 2.4 And 2.5)
Issue #147, Section #1 (24�Dec�2001:�The VM Subsystem: The Saga Continues)
Issue #141, Section #1 (12�Nov�2001:�Memory Debugging Tool)
Issue #141, Section #3 (12�Nov�2001:�Andrea's VM Code Performs Better Than Rik's)
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 #136, Section #2 (8�Oct�2001:�Benchmarks And Bug Reports In The New 2.4 VM)
Issue #136, Section #9 (8�Oct�2001:�Success And Problems With New VM)
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 #127, Section #3 (23�Jul�2001:�e2fsck Hanging in 2.4.7)
Issue #123, Section #5 (25�Jun�2001:�Linux 2.4.6-pre3)
Issue #123, Section #6 (25�Jun�2001:�Unregistered Changes To The User<->Kernel API)
Issue #120, Section #1 (28�May�2001:�SMP Race In ext2)
Issue #114, Section #5 (16�Apr�2001:�2.4.3 Compile Problems On Alpha And IA64)
Issue #114, Section #8 (16�Apr�2001:�Big Raw IO Performance Enhancement For 2.4)
Issue #111, Section #3 (16�Mar�2001:�Memory Allocation Design In 2.4)
Issue #103, Section #12 (19�Jan�2001:�2.0.39 Announced)
Issue #102, Section #10 (12�Jan�2001:�Rik And Andrea: As The Saga Turns)
Issue #102, Section #25 (12�Jan�2001:�"VM: do_try_to_free_pages" Lockups: The Saga Ends Peacefully)
Issue #100, Section #7 (1�Jan�2001:�Benefits Of NFSv3)
Issue #99, Section #10 (25�Dec�2000:�VM Problems In 2.2.18)
Issue #94, Section #7 (20�Nov�2000:�Virtual Memory Problems In 2.2)
Issue #93, Section #6 (13�Nov�2000:�Security Hole In Latest Developer Release)
Issue #92, Section #4 (6�Nov�2000:�Data Loss For Big Files Over NFS In 2.2 And 2.4)
Issue #91, Section #14 (30�Oct�2000:�Virtual Memory Subsystem Still Shaky)
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 #88, Section #1 (9�Oct�2000:�Driver Directory-Structure Tweaks)
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 #86, Section #1 (25�Sep�2000:�Reaching For Full Preemption)
Issue #86, Section #3 (25�Sep�2000:�Patches For Big RAM, Better VM, Raw IO, SMP Performance, Large Files, And Other Stuff)
Issue #86, Section #9 (25�Sep�2000:�Using Netware Elevator Ideas In Linux)
Issue #85, Section #10 (18�Sep�2000:�Kernel Debugging Documentation)
Issue #82, Section #4 (28�Aug�2000:�Xircom PCMCIA Problems)
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 #77, Section #7 (24�Jul�2000:�Improving The Kernel Release Schedule)
Issue #76, Section #13 (17�Jul�2000:�Dynamic Inode Allocation)
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 #11 (26�Jun�2000:�Developers Argue Over Virtual Memory: 'classzone' Vs. 'strict zone')
Issue #72, Section #6 (19�Jun�2000:�More VM Bug Hunting)
Issue #72, Section #8 (19�Jun�2000:�Pushing For Sign-off On CML2)
Issue #70, Section #2 (5�Jun�2000:�Things To Do Before 2.4: Saga Continues)
Issue #68, Section #5 (22�May�2000:�Virtual Memory Problems Persist In Development Series)
Issue #67, Section #9 (15�May�2000:�Ancient Cache Bug Found And Fixed In 2.0, 2.2, And 2.3)
Issue #66, Section #5 (8�May�2000:�To Do Before 2.4: Saga Continues)
Issue #66, Section #8 (8�May�2000:�2.0.x Development Continues)
Issue #65, Section #4 (1�May�2000:�Unexplained Memory Overuse In Development Kernels)
Issue #64, Section #3 (24�Apr�2000:�Cornering A Slowdown)
Issue #60, Section #2 (27�Mar�2000:�Linus On The Verge Of pre-2.4; Status Of reiserfs)
Issue #60, Section #3 (27�Mar�2000:�Alan's Task List For 2.4: Saga Continues)
Issue #60, Section #10 (27�Mar�2000:�Jiffies Wraparound)
Issue #59, Section #7 (20�Mar�2000:�Scheduling Difficulties Under Linux)
Issue #57, Section #4 (6�Mar�2000:�The Real-Time Clock And Portability)
Issue #57, Section #7 (6�Mar�2000:�Developers Dispute Direction Of Alpha Patches)
Issue #56, Section #2 (28�Feb�2000:�Fixing Stalls At Heavy I/O Writes)
Issue #55, Section #11 (21�Feb�2000:�Bug Hunt In Unstable Series)
Issue #54, Section #8 (14�Feb�2000:�Read-Write Semaphores For Alpha)
Issue #48, Section #2 (27�Dec�1999:�mmap Changes)
Issue #48, Section #5 (27�Dec�1999:�Major Security Hole In 2.0.x!! Alan Hands Off The 2.0 Tree To David Weinehall!!)
Issue #46, Section #1 (13�Dec�1999:�Google Bug Hunt)
Issue #46, Section #4 (13�Dec�1999:�Filesystem Corruption Hunt And Fix In Stable And Unstable Kernels)
Issue #44, Section #3 (22�Nov�1999:�Real Time Clock Stoppage)
Issue #44, Section #5 (22�Nov�1999:�Kernel Support For Binary-Only Programs)
Issue #43, Section #5 (15�Nov�1999:�Mirroring Via The Buffer Cache)
Issue #42, Section #7 (8�Nov�1999:�Questions And Answers About New Buffer Hash)
Issue #41, Section #4 (1�Nov�1999:�Bigmem Patches Advancing)
Issue #40, Section #1 (25�Oct�1999:�SMP CPU-Binding Discussion)
Issue #37, Section #3 (4�Oct�1999:�Unsolved SMP Races Explored)
Issue #37, Section #5 (4�Oct�1999:�GCC Bug, Workaround, And Controversy)
Issue #37, Section #13 (4�Oct�1999:�Linux 2.2.x ISN Vulnerability)
Issue #37, Section #17 (4�Oct�1999:�Epox Moherboards)
Issue #36, Section #6 (27�Sep�1999:�Linux 2.3.18ac3 Announced)
Issue #36, Section #7 (27�Sep�1999:�Incremental -ac Patches)
Issue #36, Section #8 (27�Sep�1999:�Andrea Arcangeli's Patch Set)
Issue #36, Section #14 (27�Sep�1999:�2.3.18ac4 Announced)
Issue #36, Section #22 (27�Sep�1999:�2.2.13pre9 Announced)
Issue #35, Section #2 (20�Sep�1999:�bigmem Patch Conflicts With rawio Patch)
Issue #35, Section #4 (20�Sep�1999:�IKD In The Kernel)
Issue #35, Section #28 (20�Sep�1999:�Ramdisk Fix For 2.3.18)
Issue #34, Section #4 (13�Sep�1999:�ReiserFS Nears Readiness; Difficulties Discussed)
Issue #34, Section #28 (13�Sep�1999:�Satisfied User Sees Speed Improvements In 2.3.x)
Issue #33, Section #3 (7�Sep�1999:�Many SMP Races In 2.3.13)
Issue #33, Section #5 (7�Sep�1999:�Ramdisks Blocksize And 2.3.x Problems)
Issue #33, Section #21 (7�Sep�1999:�2.3.15 Announced; Semaphore Code Rewritten)
Issue #33, Section #33 (7�Sep�1999:�Linux 2.2.13pre1)
Issue #32, Section #12 (27�Aug�1999:�Using 4 Gigs Of Ram On 32-Bit Systems)
Issue #31, Section #11 (19�Aug�1999:�Development Conflicts)
Issue #28, Section #6 (22�Jul�1999:�Kernel Profiling)
Issue #27, Section #17 (15�Jul�1999:�Extensive Buffer Patch Submitted)
Issue #25, Section #1 (1�Jul�1999:�Performance/DoS Patch; Kernel Stabilizes)
Issue #25, Section #6 (1�Jul�1999:�2.3.7 Filesystem Reorganization And Breakage)
Issue #25, Section #9 (1�Jul�1999:�Linux Moves On After Invasive Recoding)
Issue #24, Section #1 (24�Jun�1999:�Virtual Memory Performance Patch For 2.2.x)
Issue #24, Section #9 (24�Jun�1999:�The State Of The Bleeding Edge)
Issue #19, Section #6 (20�May�1999:�Legacy a.out Support Fading)
Issue #18, Section #5 (13�May�1999:�Philosophy Of Open Source; Maintainer Conflict)
Issue #17, Section #7 (6�May�1999:�Performance Finagling)
Issue #16, Section #7 (29�Apr�1999:�Memory Management Bug Hunt)
Issue #15, Section #1 (22�Apr�1999:�Bug Hunt For 'Impossible' Errors)
Issue #13, Section #9 (8�Apr�1999:�Linux Debugger For Assembly)
Issue #12, Section #1 (1�Apr�1999:�ext2 Bug Hunt)
Issue #12, Section #10 (1�Apr�1999:�Fix For An Obscure DoS In 2.2.4)
Issue #11, Section #1 (27�Mar�1999:�Kernel Accounting)
Issue #11, Section #3 (27�Mar�1999:�Out Of Memory Errors With Plenty Of Unused Swap In 2.2.x)
Issue #10, Section #7 (18�Mar�1999:�Developer Interaction)
Issue #10, Section #19 (18�Mar�1999:�TCP Bugfix)
Issue #10, Section #23 (18�Mar�1999:�dquota Fixes)
Issue #9, Section #1 (11�Mar�1999:�Panic Hunt)
Issue #9, Section #5 (11�Mar�1999:�RAID And CONFIG_FILTER Troubles Under 2.2.2)
Issue #9, Section #17 (11�Mar�1999:�HP Begins Closed Port To Merced (To Be GPLed Eventually))
Issue #8, Section #5 (4�Mar�1999:�Scheduler Resolution)
Issue #8, Section #10 (4�Mar�1999:�Beowulf Performance Optimization)
Issue #8, Section #11 (4�Mar�1999:�Fixes To 2.0 But Not 2.2; Working Around Solaris Bugs)
Issue #6, Section #3 (18�Feb�1999:�Inode Memory; Module Access To Cache)
Issue #5, Section #3 (11�Feb�1999:�Hunt For A Crash Exploit)
Issue #5, Section #5 (11�Feb�1999:�Debugging Session)
Issue #5, Section #9 (11�Feb�1999:�Process Scheduling)

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