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“After 21 hours I got bored…” There are devs and then there are kernel devs. The relentless pursuit of bugs is truly impressive.

• vasco 3y ago
  Bored of waiting for the parallel run, I don't think they were investigating for 21h straight. Previous paragragh: > Paolo Bonzini suggested to me that I boot the kernel in parallel, in a loop, for 24 hours at the point immediately before the commit Otherwise I don't disagree that perseverance is important to get to the bottom of this stuff.
• kneebonian 3y ago
  A great article by James Mickens entitled "The night watch" explains what it really means to be a kernel dev. https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/mickens/files/thenightwatch.pdf https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/mickens/files/thenightwatc...
  • plq 3y ago
    Man, what a masterpiece, even the title gives me chuckles :) Thanks for bringing it up
  • MR4D 3y ago
    “zombies who say “sir” and “ma’am” but then try to eat your brain” Awesome read! Thanks for sharing.