Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 06 Feb 2002 14:48:35 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | 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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