Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751413AbVIXFC3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Sep 2005 01:02:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751415AbVIXFC3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Sep 2005 01:02:29 -0400 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:35775 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751413AbVIXFC2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Sep 2005 01:02:28 -0400 Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 07:03:05 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Roman Zippel Cc: Thomas Gleixner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, george@mvista.com, johnstul@us.ibm.com, paulmck@us.ibm.com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] ktimers subsystem Message-ID: <20050924050305.GA29052@elte.hu> References: <20050919184834.1.patchmail@tglx.tec.linutronix.de> <1127342485.24044.600.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de> <1127464041.24044.809.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-ELTE-SpamScore: 0.0 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=0.0 required=5.9 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled SpamAssassin version=3.0.4 0.0 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 881 Lines: 23 * Roman Zippel 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/