Re: Linux 2.6.15.2

[Maciej Soltysiak <solt2@dns.toxicfilms.tv>]

Hello Steven,

Tuesday, January 31, 2006, 2:04:08 PM, you wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 23:34 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:

>> All of these only seem to affect a small minority of machines.

> Andrew, I think you really mean here "a small minority of those that
> reported it".  Remember that for ever bug that is reported, there's
> probably 100 cases of that same bug that isn't reported. If not more.
If among 1000 thousand computers with 2.6.15, and 2.6.15-rcX reported
by klive.cpushare.com are 20 that are affected, you might say that
among 150.000 computers registered http://counter.li.org/ there
are almost 3100 computers affected.

Yeah, a minority, but when you count them up it sums up to a hefty
number of admins or just users that hit a bug and do not know what
is going on.

Andrea Arcangeli's klive could some day be a measure of the bug-affected
fraction. If it already is not. Klive reports hardware setups
and configuration. I am not sure if it is available somehow but
maybe it would be nice to query klive database in an SQL manner?

> SELECT COUNT(*) from hosts WHERE kernel = "2.6.15" and config_scsi = 'y'
and ...;
> 3089

-- 
Best regards,
Maciej


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