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List:       mandrake-cooker
Subject:    Re: !!!OT!!: Re: [Cooker] Is LKCD worth including in kernel?
From:       Oden Eriksson <oden.eriksson () kvikkjokk ! net>
Date:       2002-05-02 17:51:35
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On Thursdayen den 2 May 2002 18.19, Borsenkow Andrej wrote:
> В Чтв, 02.05.2002, в 20:05, Oden Eriksson написал:
> > Of course there will be impacts on performance, but so what? As I see it,
> > or wish to belive it you turn logging on or off with a kernel module?
> > Only people with lots of cpu power has event logging turned on all the
> > time.
>
> If you speak about LTT, it adds hooks to kernel. These hooks are always
> active even if you have to do as little as compare variable for
> (in-)equality. In some contexts you would avoid any extra job - just
> think about timer interrupt.

If it works like that it's terrible. I know too little about the LTT stuff to 
really know. But, what I know is that the _feature_ itself would be really 
appreciated (by me anyway;)).

> OTOH crash dumps should not impact performance of running kernel in any
> way. At least I do not see how it is possible.

I don't, I've never had much of this (for some years).

-- 
Regards // Oden Eriksson

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