[5319] in Athena Bugs
kernel text cache
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Wed Jun 27 07:30:24 1990
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 90 07:30:08 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: jfc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: bugs[5314]
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 90 04:55:11 EDT
From: John Carr <jfc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
(I mentioned this during the test period; apparently release engineering
thought it better to ignore than debate this problem.)
Please do not insult the release engineering team, especially when you
are wrong.
For your information, I spent quite a bit of time before release 7.0
went out trying to establish the disadvantages and advantages of
disabling the text cache, and trying to come up with a better
solution. Just because you didn't see that happening doesn't mean it
wasn't happening.
I do not know why we decided to turn off cacheing completely rather
than leaving it the same as in 6.4R. Whatever the reason, saying that
we "thought it better to ignore" the problem is incorrect, because we
DID try to do something about it.
Don Davis has already offered to fix the text cacheing code over the
summer so that it can be reenabled for 7.1. I don't know whether or
not that will come to fruition. Perhaps you can work with him to get
us some results more quickly.
jik
