* Roman Zippel <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>
> > Each network connection, each disk I/O operation arms a timeout timer to
> > cover error conditions. Increasing the load on those increases the
> > number of armed timers. At the same time this increased load keeps the
> > timers longer active as it takes more time to detect that the "good"
> > condition arrived on time.
>
> You're still rather vague here...
as i said before, millions of timers are easily possible, and i
personally saw in excess of 16 million active timers. I hope there was
nothing vague about that ;-)
Ingo
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