Re: Asynchronous CDROM Events in Userland

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Date: Wed Feb 06 2002 - 17:48:35 EST


Pavel Machek wrote:

>
> It may not eat CPU but it will definitely eat memory... Because polling
> means deamon that normally could be swapped out needs to stay in memory.
>

At least a small part of it, yes.

        -hpa

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