[ from the retro-fitting-older-entries dept. ]
Random Stuff
Today I am on route in to London again in order to meet sladen and dmesg. Unfortunately I am now quite late having had to receive several calls this morning which resulted in leaving home quite late. I owe Paul a pint or two. Anyway…
Miscellaneous Stuff
Apparently I am also now officially “overqualified”. At least according to the SA’s at a certain large investment bank. I was asked what happens when you type sync at the ok prompt on a Sun box so I discussed zero page deferrencing and how Solaris traps down to the
do_panic function which verifies the disk driver sublayer and then stores a crash dump towards the end of the configured swap device – then why it does this and even parts of the magic numbers used in the dump. A little OTT perhaps.
Jon.