Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for

Bogdan Costescu (bogdan.costescu@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de)
Fri, 1 Jun 2001 16:46:50 +0200 (CEST)

On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Alan Cox wrote:

> Which is worse. I cat the proc file a few times and your HA app is unlucky. It
> now gets *NO* data for five minutes. If we cache the values it gets approximate
> data

Rate limit: current values, sysadmin knows when something's wrong or
application knows when something's wrong (depending if you
block or not when the limit is exceeded).
Caching: approximate values, sysadmin is not notified (unless something
like ioctl/second is available somewhere), application is not
notified.

[ Whoa, I can't type at the speed of this thread 8-) ]

-- 
Bogdan Costescu


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