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@@ -354,6 +354,33 @@ Tom Van Cutsem, 2009.
 [[hurd/libpager]].
 
 
+### IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-03-29
+
+    <braunr> some day i'd like to add a system call that threads can use to
+      terminate themselves, passing their stack as a parameter for deallocation
+    <braunr> then, we should review the timeouts used with libports management
+    <braunr> having servers go away when unneeded is a valuable and visible
+      feature of modularity
+
+
+### IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-04-03
+
+    <braunr> youpi: i also run without the libports_stability patch
+    <braunr> and i'd like it to be removed unless you still have a good reason
+      to keep it around
+    <youpi> well, the reason I know is mentioned in the patch
+    <youpi> i.e. the box becomes unresponsive when all these threads wake up at
+      the same time
+    <youpi> maybe we could just introduce some randomness in the sleep time
+    <braunr> youpi: i didn't experience the problem
+    <youpi> well, I did :)
+    <braunr> or if i did, it was very short
+    <youpi> for the libports stability, I'd really say take a random value
+      between timeout/2 and timeout
+    <youpi> and that should just nicely fix the issue
+    <braunr> ok
+
+
 ## Alternative approaches:
 
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