On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:19:30 MST, Matthew Wilcox said: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 06:04:25PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Theoretically, at least. Sometimes, in the real world, other constraints > > enter into it... > > So you're saying that you can't find reliable ways to reproduce problems > on demand? Those are some of the lower quality bug reports, so I don't > think we're losing much by having you not report them.
I'm sure that *everybody* on this list would *love* to know how you find a reliable way to reproduce all the bugs that start off with "after X days of uptime". But when you're chasing what might be a race condition with a very small timing hole, you may need an event to happen several million times before the accumulated chance of hitting it becomes appreciable.
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