Re: [ANNOUNCE] ktimers subsystem

Ingo Molnar
2005-09-24T05:02:29Z

* Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>
> > Each network connection, each disk I/O operation arms a timeout timer to
> > cover error conditions. Increasing the load on those increases the
> > number of armed timers. At the same time this increased load keeps the
> > timers longer active as it takes more time to detect that the "good"
> > condition arrived on time.
>
> You're still rather vague here...

as i said before, millions of timers are easily possible, and i
personally saw in excess of 16 million active timers. I hope there was
nothing vague about that ;-)

Ingo