* Alexey Kuznetsov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello! > > > Thanks for that explanation - it helps somewhat - one thing I was > > confused by was why the timer mechanism for the garbage collection > > was so elaborate; why does it do all that back off stuff and > > adjusting itself? Why not just run at some fixed rate? > > What's about timer in dst.c, it is just saving useless (and large) work. > In default configuration you can have ~64K of dst entries listed > there without any chances to be released. Remember, those dst entries
Thanks for the explanation Alexey. I'll get back to the list and yourselves if the machine fails again with the diag you and Herbert suggested. Dave -- -----Open up your eyes, open up your mind, open up your code ------- / Dr. David Alan Gilbert | Running GNU/Linux on Alpha,68K| Happy \ \ gro.gilbert @ treblig.org | MIPS,x86,ARM,SPARC,PPC & HPPA | In Hex / \ _________________________|_____ http://www.treblig.org |_______/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
