From: Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: udevd - throttle fork() if we get to many childs in running state
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 18:52:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050117185248.GA20783@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1104030808.5805.34.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Hi Kay -
On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 05:16:39PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> If the system reaches a defined limit of processes in running state, udevd
> starts to count its own processes in running state from its session (all
> forked hotplug child processes, subprocesses and callouts) and throttles
> further process forking if the limit is reached.
Why do you only count running processes? Seems a bit abitrary, since you
don't know when the sleeping processes will become runnable.
Why not increase the total limit, and count all of its processes? I
doubt that would change timings.
-- Patrick Mansfield
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-17 18:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-26 3:13 udevd - throttle fork() if we get to many childs in running Kay Sievers
2005-01-16 16:16 ` Kay Sievers
2005-01-17 18:52 ` Patrick Mansfield [this message]
2005-01-17 19:16 ` Kay Sievers
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