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* 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 - 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/ | ||||||||||||
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