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On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 14:47:17 +1000
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:

> And there's more :) The work done in ifdown also falls in the same
> category.  Its work will be carried out in the GC anyway.
> 
> Actually in all these cases it could take a lot more than two minutes
> if there is a long-living entity (maybe a TCP connection) holding onto
> the dst.  So I guess #1 and #2 should be addressed at some point.

Maybe the solution is to initiate a GC run as soon as possible
instead of however long into the future it would have ended
up running.

Wouldn't that help?