Re: Way OT: Re. lines of code [was Re: implicit linkage]
Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> writes:
> If pid 1 gets stalled, lots of things all over the system get to wait
> for something important that can't happen until pid 1 gets un-stalled,
> and that's true even with quad core. It may not freeze every process,
> but it can cause dropped packets and such things. Potentially, you
> could, every now and then, lose a buffer-full of data headed for a
> file on disk, as well.
>
> Again, to be painfully pedantic, one in ten thousand buffers is more
> of a problem than one in a hundred. You notice frequent dropped
> buffers, so you're likely to fix the problem. Infrequent dropped
> buffers tend to be not noticed until the data is lost.
YMMD :-D
Ansgar
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