On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 12:01:09AM +0000, Laurent Bercot wrote: > > > The socket receive buffer turned out to be too small for real world > > systems. Use the same size as udevd to be on the safe side. As this is > > just a limit and the memory is not allocated by the kernel until really > > needed there is actually no memory wasted. > > Is it also the case when overcommit is disabled? > busybox is used in a lot of embedded systems, and some of them disable > overcommit. Committing 128 MiB would make mdev completely unusable.
AFAICT it is not accounted to the process memory until the data is actually queued on the socket. > Laurent, who still believes leaving the choice to the user is the > correct approach. https://skarnet.org/software/mdevd/mdevd.html Hmm, I see that it might be desirable to limit the event queue depth on resource constraint systems. But the trade-off is to loose the events and always do a full scan if it happens... :/ /Jan _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
