Re: Kernel Threads: Dr. Russinovich's response

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 12 Jan 1999 18:39:35 +0000 (GMT)


> > Mark Russinovich
> > Mark earned his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 1994 where his
> > thesis topic was software-based, application-transparent fault
> > tolerance. He is currently a contributing editor for Dr. Dobb's Journal
> > and Windows NT Magazine, and is an NT internals researcher for a large
> > company. Mark lives in Danbury, Connecticut and can be reached at
> > mark@sysinternals.com.
>
> While this is somewhat offtopic to this list, Mark Russinovich, along with
> Bryce Cogswell, has written a number of extremely useful programs for NT
> that have an essential place in my NT toolbox.

I've had several discussions with Mark since his initial comments. Firstly
he knows his stuff. Secondly in several cases he was quite accurate on
weaknesses in the scaling. My initial reaction was "uh humm hold on.. "
but I've since traded various bits both ways resolving misunderstandings
of models. Mark has been through at least pieces of the kernel code.

I don't agree with some of his conclusions but he's definitely not a J
Random Fool like some people think. He's also prepared to defend his claims
in detail unlike hack merchants like Fred Moody.

I suspect we can learn useful things from his comments even if they arent
the ones you want to hear.

Alan

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