Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:16:53 +0300 | From | Evgeniy Polyakov <> | 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.
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