Bug#620297: base: vmstat and /proc/loadavg disagree
(cc-ing the bug log. I hope that's okay.)
Aman Gupta wrote:
> Hey Jonathan. I emailed lkml more than a week ago
Yep, it went through. You can see a link to your message in the
"Forwarded to" field of <http://bugs.debian.org/620297>. As for why
no one responded, I don't know --- probably no one was interested.
(Peter in particular seems to be a busy sort of person that is always
doing useful things and does not pay much attention to mail from
people not named Linus as far as I can tell. ;-))
If you send a reply upstream, someone might be able to give hints
about what information would be useful in order to garner more
responses. Following up with additional information when a message
seems to have been forgotten (once every week and a half, say) is
considered to be a useful way to avoid falling off the radar without
annoying people too much.
The LKML FAQ[*] also tells me:
> One hint: if you attach to your mail a genuinely useful piece of good
> quality code that you wrote, there are good chances that it will be
> answered (choose a good subject line, too).
So if you can come up with a test script or some hacky kernel patch
that demonstrates where the problem seems to lie, that might help.
[*] http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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