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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.

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.

A great article by James Mickens entitled "The night watch" explains what it really means to be a kernel dev.

Man, what a masterpiece, even the title gives me chuckles :) Thanks for bringing it up

“zombies who say “sir” and “ma’am” but then try to eat your brain”

Awesome read! Thanks for sharing.