On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 01:49:52PM -0400, Benjamin LaHaise wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 01:45:24PM -0400, James Bottomley wrote: > > But also, the sysfs with over 4,000 (and higher) devices was > > specifically checked by OSDL (actually as part of the CGL testing) some > > of the Manoj changes (for unpinning entries etc) were needed to get it > > to function, but as of now, I believe an enterprise scaling test works > > reasonably well for it ... there certainly wasn't any evidence of it > > dying horribly in the tests. > > i386 exhausts lowmem very quickly. SCSI is in a bit better shape than > network devices as the multiplier is only around 4 compared to 16 for network > devices. And sysfs pushes nodes out of memory when we start to exhaust memory, so there should not be a problem at all. If there is, please let the sysfs developers know about it and we will work to fix this. thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
