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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Asynchronous CDROM Events in Userland
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 14:48:35 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C61B2C3.1000005@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0202032333200.1158-100000@rtlab.med.cornell.edu> <a3l4uc@cesium.transmeta.com> <20020206142259.A37@toy.ucw.cz>

Pavel Machek wrote:

> 
> It may not eat CPU but it will definitely eat memory... Because polling
> means deamon that normally could be swapped out needs to stay in memory.
>


At least a small part of it, yes.

	-hpa




  reply	other threads:[~2002-02-06 22:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-04  4:41 Asynchronous CDROM Events in Userland Calin A. Culianu
2002-02-04  5:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-02-04  5:19   ` Calin A. Culianu
2002-02-04 12:43   ` john slee
2002-02-04 15:23     ` Calin A. Culianu
2002-02-04 16:20     ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-02-04  7:04 ` Erik Andersen
2002-02-04  7:57   ` Jens Axboe
2002-02-04  9:33     ` Gregor Jasny
2002-02-04  9:39       ` Jens Axboe
2002-02-04 14:05     ` hugang
2002-02-05  7:43       ` Jens Axboe
2002-02-04 12:16   ` Alan Cox
2002-02-04 20:51     ` oops booting 2.4.18-pre7-ac3 Todd M. Roy
2002-02-05  4:04 ` Asynchronous CDROM Events in Userland Stevie O
2002-02-05  4:28   ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-02-05  4:44     ` Calin A. Culianu
2002-02-05  4:47       ` H. Peter Anvin
     [not found] ` <a3l4uc@cesium.transmeta.com>
2002-02-06 14:22   ` Pavel Machek
2002-02-06 22:48     ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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2002-02-05 13:17 David Balazic

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