From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Kay Sievers" Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:53:01 +0000 Subject: Re: many instances of "/sbin/ifup ethx" coming from udev/hotplug Message-Id: <3ae72650712111353n3f44d925nbf7874561588b19@mail.gmail.com> List-Id: References: <475F04FC.2040802@nortel.com> In-Reply-To: <475F04FC.2040802@nortel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Dec 11, 2007 10:45 PM, Chris Friesen wrote: > We're running a 2.6.14 kernel and have a situation where multiple (20 or > so) ethx devices are being created in about 3 seconds. This appears to > cause latency issues for other tasks on the system due to all the > "/sbin/ifup ethx" processes that get created. > > We're seeing these processes being created by udevd directly, by > /sbin/hotplug, and by /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/net.hotplug (which > is in turn created by udevd). > > Can someone shed some light as to why ifup gets called from three > different places for the same event, and whether it's expected to cause > latency issues? Also, is there anything we can do to streamline this? What distro is that? It sounds like a pretty broken setup. :) Kay ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel