[OT] long-lived spawners

[Harald Becker]

On 12.03.2015 20:57, Laurent Bercot wrote:
> On 12/03/2015 20:07, Harald Becker wrote:
>> Don't you risk resource problems for hotplug handler processes, when
>> the system is under such pressure?
>
>   No and that's my point. If you don't have swap, it's likely that
> your box is embedded and you won't spend your life plugging and
> unplugging USB sticks, so after the first coldplug burst, the
> pressure will be pretty small.

So why using hotplug on those systems at all? Semi automatic device 
management may be a good chose for such systems, that is call "mdev -s" 
manually when device update is required. May be done invoked by an 
application (either direct or indirect)

... beside this, I think it is the users decision which mechanism he 
want to use ... it is his system!