Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] Re: A common layer for Accounting packages

From: Paul Jackson <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 12:40:41 -0800

Jamal wrote:
> What was wrong with just going ahead and just always
> invoking your netlink_send()? 

I think the hope was to reduce the cost of the accounting hook in fork
to "next-to-zero" if accounting is not being used on that system.

See Andrew's query earlier:
> b) they are next-to-zero cost if something is listening on the netlink
>    socket but no accounting daemon is running.

Presumably sending an ignored packet costs something, quite possibly
more than "next-to-zero".

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