Re: Bug#90867: Menu is more important than it would seem
On 26-Mar-01, 06:46 (CST), Henrique M Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Jules Bean wrote:
> > If that hit can be reduced to a single call to stat() or fstat() (and
> > I can't see why it can't) then I can't believe that amounts to much of
>
> It can, and the performance hit is negligible IMHO. Heck, debian cron can
> detect and reload configuration on the fly for a file and an entire
> directory of files, and it does that check every minute. Nobody ever
> complained, AFAIK.
Except when I checking something that wasn't getting cached, and caused
people's laptop disks to spin up every minute. They complained then (and
quite justifiably, too).
Steve
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