Re: random system crashes

On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 08:42:13PM +0100, Matthew Hodgson wrote:
> What did happen to Ingo?  He was remarkably helpful and active on the
> lists right up to his last post on the 2nd of May - and then seems to have
> disappeared off the surface of the planet.  Does anyone know if he's
> okay?

I think the short answer to that is:  busy reworking major components
of the kernel for ultra-high-performance and functionality, as he did
in 2.3.x.   This time it's scheduling and threading:  irq performance,
O(1) scheduling, the kernel side of Native POSIX Threads Library (with
glibc maintainer Ulrich Drepper doing most of the userland side)
including thread-local storage, threading and signal semantics, futex
and MM fixes and improvements, workqueues, etc.  [Ingo has an uncanny
knack for adding functionality, improving performance, and reducing
code size all at once.] Expect him to be busy until the next stable
release ships.

A little benign neglect has been known to cause somebody else to step up
to the plate, read the code, and do a bit of maintenance ...

Regards,

	Bill Rugolsky