Re: fanotify - overall design before I start sending patches

Jamie Lokier
2009-08-07T08:59:26Z

Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Thu 2009-08-06 11:20:57, Douglas Leeder wrote:
> > You mean that in 5 seconds, you won't have any point when you can tell
> > the kernel, "I'm still working"?
>
> Yes. Try make -j on your machine one day.

Ironically, some users report that Tracker (which uses inotify, hence
the irony) can make their system unresponsive for more than 5 seconds. :-)

-- Jamie