linux-kernel - Re: Early boot panic on machine with lots of memory

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Message-ID: <20120622201429.GM4642@google.com>
Date:	Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:14:29 -0700
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Cc:	Gavin Shan <shangw@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, hpa@...ux.intel.com,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Early boot panic on machine with lots of memory

Hello, Yinghai.

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 01:01:32PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> using yhlu.kernel@...il.com to get mail from the list and respond as
> yinghai@...nel.org.
> 
> gmail web client does not allow us to insert plain text.
> 
> if using standline thunderbird, that seems can not handle thousand mail.

I moved away from TB too (to gmail + mutt) but IIRC turning off
indexing made it mostly bearable for me.

> noticed now even Linus is attaching patch, so I assume that is ok
> because there is no othe good rway.

Yeah, it's okay but just not optimal.  I was wondering what changed.
My setup is pretty similar and in case you're intersted, here are some
tricks I've been using.

Thunderbird

 * In the Composition & Addressing tab of account setting, clear
   "Compose messages in HTML format".

 * Open Config Editor under Preferences -> Advanced -> General.
   * set mailnews.wraplength to 9999
   * set mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed to false

 * Install External Editor add-on and configure it to your favorite
   editor.

   http://globs.org/articles.php?pg=2&lng=en

   Ctrl-E launches the external editor.  The only caveat is that there
   seems to be a race condition and if the machine is under heavy load
   the extension occassinally loses the edited text, so it usually is a
   good idea to save a copy in a separate file before exiting the
   external editor.  It never happens on my desktop but happens on my
   laptop once in a blue moon.

Alternatively, you can use mutt for patch sending / processing.  With
caches turned on (set header_cache, set message_cachedir), it's
actually pretty useable w/ gmail.

-- 
tejun
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