Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: udevd is killing file write performance. | From | John McCutchan <> | Date | Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:48:23 -0500 |
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On Wed, 2006-22-02 at 07:42 -0600, Robin Holt wrote: > > I know _VERY_ little about filesystems. udevd appears to be looking > at /etc/udev/rules.d. This bumps inotify_watches to 1. The file > being written is on an xfs filesystem mounted at a different mountpoint. > Could the inotify flag be moved from a global to a sb (or something > finer) point and therefore avoid taking the dentry->d_lock when there > is no possibility of a watch event being queued.
We could do this, and avoid the problem, but only in this specific scenario. The file being written is on a different mountpoint but whats to stop a different app from running inotify on that mount point? Perhaps the program could be altered instead?
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