[AUUG-Talk]: Re: [BUGA] Sell me an Apple!

[Gary R. Schmidt]

Quoting David Vincent <d__ at mac.com>:

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> On 27/03/2006, at 23:38, David Newall wrote:
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> > Gary R. Schmidt said:
> >> Oh, it's _way_ beyond crap.  I just started working with it, my
> first
> >> "Oh No!" is this - there is a Kernel Memory Allocation Zone where
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> >> kernel
> >> allocations greater than 8Kb go.
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> >> Its size is calculated based on physical RAM, and it is *fixed*.
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> > This sounds like some sort of buffer cache, and an assignation
> based on
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> I am not a kernel programmer, but a Linux kernel contributor I spoke
> to 
> thought this was more of a quirk than a fundamental defect.
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> Gary talks elsewhere about other issues apparently with the hardware
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Not me, that was Greg, Greg Black, to be precise.  I don't own a Mac,
but currently sit near a few at work, at least until I start my new job,
which probably won't involve a Mac, I think.  Restructures do that to you.

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> No, the real lesson that Apple programmers (and others) should have 
> learned by now is:
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>    No matter what you do, some clod is going to flame you for it.
> 
Nah, but I'll flame _you_ for inadequate functional wetware.  :->

        Cheers,
                Gary    B-)