Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Fri Jun 01 2001 - 09:37:19 EST

> I'd argue for rate limiting as the application only gets back new data,
> never a cached value n times in a row.

Which is worse. I cat the proc file a few times and your HA app is unlucky. It
now gets *NO* data for five minutes. If we cache the values it gets approximate
data

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