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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: udev hangs under high loads
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 07:01:04 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041025070104.GA18133@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041023054119.GA11915@kroah.com>

On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 09:56:16PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 09:51:01PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> > On Oct 24, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > Just use a "normal" filesysten then and everything is fine.
> > There are many good reasons for using tmpfs for /dev, and I would be
> > very displeased if this will not be possible or practical anymore.
> 
> Yes it's nice and there is still nothing wrong with tmpfs use. It's just
> a bit more space needed than before. Ever thought about much memory _every_
> file in sysfs takes?

Oh yeah, a number of us are _very_ aware of that :)

So much so that the -mm tree has a patch that reduces that very memory
footprint, and those patches are trying valiantly to make it into the
mainline kernel tree.

That being said, putting a single, small (less than a single page) file
for every device node in the system in tmpfs should not be a big deal.
Anyone have any real numbers that they are worried about?

thanks,

greg k-h


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-10-25  7:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-23  5:41 udev hangs under high loads Greg KH
2004-10-23  6:31 ` Kay Sievers
2004-10-24  5:08 ` Kay Sievers
2004-10-24  5:53 ` Olaf Hering
2004-10-24 15:53 ` Kay Sievers
2004-10-24 15:57 ` Olaf Hering
2004-10-24 19:27 ` Kevin P. Fleming
2004-10-24 19:46 ` Kay Sievers
2004-10-24 19:51 ` Marco d'Itri
2004-10-24 19:56 ` Kay Sievers
2004-10-25  2:51 ` Kay Sievers
2004-10-25  7:01 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-10-25 17:07 ` Kay Sievers
2004-10-25 17:12 ` Kevin P. Fleming
2004-10-25 17:27 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2004-10-25 17:53 ` Kay Sievers
2004-10-25 20:55 ` Nishanth Aravamudan

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