linux-kernel - Re: init's children list is long and slows reaping children.

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Date:	Tue, 10 Apr 2007 01:21:46 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, Robin Holt <holt@....com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jack Steiner <steiner@...ricas.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: init's children list is long and slows reaping children.

On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 09:07:54AM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
 > On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 07:30:56PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
 > > On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 21:59:12 -0400 Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com> wrote:
 > 
 > [possible topic for KS2007]
 > 
 > > >   164 ?        S<     0:00 [cqueue/0]
 > > >   165 ?        S<     0:00 [cqueue/1]
 > > >
 > > > I'm not even sure wth these are.
 > >
 > > Me either.
 > 
 > drivers/connector/connector.c:
 > 455	dev->cbdev = cn_queue_alloc_dev("cqueue", dev->nls);

Maybe I have apps relying on the connector stuff that I don't
even realise, but ttbomk, nothing actually *needs* this
for 99% of users if I'm not mistaken.

* wonders why he never built this modular..

config PROC_EVENTS
        boolean "Report process events to userspace"
        depends on CONNECTOR=y


Yay.

	Dave

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