Joel Rees <[email protected]> writes: > If pid 1 gets stalled, lots of things all over the system get to wait > for something important that can't happen until pid 1 gets un-stalled, > and that's true even with quad core. It may not freeze every process, > but it can cause dropped packets and such things. Potentially, you > could, every now and then, lose a buffer-full of data headed for a > file on disk, as well. > > Again, to be painfully pedantic, one in ten thousand buffers is more > of a problem than one in a hundred. You notice frequent dropped > buffers, so you're likely to fix the problem. Infrequent dropped > buffers tend to be not noticed until the data is lost.
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