Re: log-buf-len dynamic

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds_at_osdl.org)
Date: 09/24/03

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    Date:	Tue, 23 Sep 2003 20:54:41 -0700 (PDT)
To: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>

    Larry, I think you remember the good old days of SunOS, when 16MB of RAM
    was a lot, and people expected less of their hardware. In particular,
    interactive programs used to have a _tiny_ footprint. Often even under X.

    Then we put Solaris, Motif and CDE on those suckers, and it was horrible.

    Yeah, SunOS was nice. But I really think it's the access patterns that
    changed.

                            Linus

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