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Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 14:48:35 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
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Subject: Re: Asynchronous CDROM Events in Userland
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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



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