[OT] long-lived spawners

Harald Becker ralda at gmx.de
Thu Mar 12 19:07:43 UTC 2015


On 12.03.2015 13:45, Laurent Bercot wrote:
>   If your system doesn't have swap, then it's probably some embedded
> box and you likely won't hotplug many things, so you can use
> Natanael's approach: use an event listening daemon for the coldplug,
> then kill it and register a /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug helper for the
> rest of the system's lifetime.

Don't you risk resource problems for hotplug handler processes, when the 
system is under such pressure? ... by I think, Denys meant big 
monolithic daemons, e.g udevd, when he talked about long lived daemons, 
not of small service starter daemons.

--
Harald





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