Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:16:53 +0300
From: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
       yang.y.yi@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, matthltc@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [2.6.16 PATCH] Connector: Filesystem Events Connector v3
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On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 09:14:53AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven (arjan@infradead.org) wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 11:08 +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 11:23:45PM -0800, Andrew Morton (akpm@osdl.org) wrote:
> > > "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
> > > >  Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 07:59:01 +0100
> > > > 
> > > >  > then make the syslog part optional.. if it's not already!
> > > > 
> > > >  Regardless I still think the filesystem events connector is a useful
> > > >  facility.
> > > 
> > > Why's that?
> > > 
> > > (I'd viewed it as a fun thing, but I haven't really seen much pull for it,
> > > and the scalability issues in there aren't trivial).
> > 
> > This module uses ratelimiting of event generation, so it will not hurt
> > performance, but probably this should be somehow tuned from userspace.
> 
> 
> .. so it has become unreliable for any kind of real use that depends on
> getting complete events. Such as virus scanning or updatedb etc 

That is why it should be tunable.
Everything has a price.

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov
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