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Re: MAXACTION exceeded error while using systemtap

From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche at redhat dot com>
To: "Stone, Joshua I" <joshua dot i dot stone at intel dot com>
Cc: systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 17:11:09 -0500
Subject: Re: MAXACTION exceeded error while using systemtap
References: <CBDB88BFD06F7F408399DBCF8776B3DC05C7DC83@scsmsx403.amr.corp.intel.com>

Hi -

> [...]
> I guess it's a question of the purpose of MAXACTION.  My understanding
> is that it is meant to avoid infinite loops/recursion.  [...]
> If you mean for MAXACTION to also provide a bound on time [...]

I think we need to to do the latter also, not just the former.  For
kernel stability and usability purposes, an uninterruptible but finite
loop that lasts several seconds could be as bad as an infinite one.

- FChE

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