diff -Naur udev-110.Orig/udevd.c udev-110.new/udevd.c
--- udev-110.Orig/udevd.c	2007-05-01 08:33:39.000000000 -0400
+++ udev-110.new/udevd.c	2007-05-01 12:49:38.000000000 -0400
@@ -347,31 +347,21 @@
 
 static int cpu_count(void)
 {
-	int f;
-	char buf[65536];
+	FILE* f;
+	char buf[1024];
 	int len;
 	const char *pos;
 	int count = 0;
 
-	f = open("/proc/stat", O_RDONLY);
-	if (f == -1)
+	f = fopen("/proc/stat", "r");
+	if (f == NULL)
 		return -1;
 
-	len = read(f, buf, sizeof(buf)-1);
-	close(f);
-	if (len <= 0)
-		return -1;
-	buf[len] = '\0';
-
-	pos = strstr(buf, "cpu");
-	if (pos == NULL)
-		return -1;
-
-	while (pos != NULL) {
-		if (strncmp(pos, "cpu", 3) == 0 &&isdigit(pos[3]))
+	while (fgets(buf, 1024, f) != NULL) {
+		if (strncmp(buf, "cpu", 3) == 0 && isdigit(buf[3]))
 			count++;
-		pos = strstr(&pos[3], "cpu");
 	}
+	fclose(f);
 
 	if (count == 0)
 		return -1;
@@ -380,30 +370,46 @@
 
 static int running_processes(void)
 {
-	int f;
-	char buf[32768];
+	FILE* f;
+	char buf[1024];
 	int len;
-	int running;
+	int running = -1;
 	const char *pos;
+	int retries = 3;
 
-	f = open("/proc/stat", O_RDONLY);
-	if (f == -1)
-		return -1;
-
-	len = read(f, buf, sizeof(buf)-1);
-	close(f);
-	if (len <= 0)
-		return -1;
-	buf[len] = '\0';
-
-	pos = strstr(buf, "procs_running ");
-	if (pos == NULL)
-		return -1;
+	/*
+	 * The retries is probably overkill but the text display is
+	 * changing rapidly.on large systems (>= 512p) and so, while
+	 * I have not actually recorded an instance where the retry
+         * was used I would rather not have it fail.
+	 * 
+	 * An alternative approach would be to note when we are on
+	 * a fairly large system (8cpus and 16Gbytes say) at which
+	 * point throttling is probably not really necessary.
+	 */
+	do {
+		f = fopen("/proc/stat", "r");
+		if (f == NULL)
+			return -1;
+
+		while (fgets(buf, 1024, f) != NULL) {
+			pos = strstr(buf, "procs_running ");
+			if (pos != NULL) {
+				int res;
+				res = sscanf(pos, "procs_running %u",
+					     &running);
+				if (res == 1) {
+					fclose(f);
+					return running;
+				}
+				break;
+			}
+		}
 
-	if (sscanf(pos, "procs_running %u", &running) != 1)
-		return -1;
+		fclose(f);
+	} while (retries-- > 0);
 
-	return running;
+	return -1;
 }
 
 /* return the number of process es in our session, count only until limit */