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

[Mark Frazer]

Alan Cox <[e-mail]> [01/06/01 10:39]:
> > 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
> 

Is it not possible to have several readers waiting for the same data
and return it to all of them when the timer expires?