Re: [PATCH] audit: allow unlimited backlog queue

On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 12:12:28 PM Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > > > Eric and I discussed bumping up the default. I would have liked to have > > > seen somewhere between 320 and 512, but that default would make the > > > embedded folks unhappy and I don't really want to get into the more > > > complex idea of having it guess what type of system it is trying to > > > configure to give a smaller number for embedded systems (which aren't > > > all small) and bigger ones to servers (which aren't all big). > > > > What about making it a compile time choice in the kernel config? I > > suggested making a compile time option, distributions can bump that up > > to 512, the default is enough and it can be tuned. Embedded can make the > > default whatever they want, too. > > Eric and I had discussed that too, and I understand there is > considerable pushback to adding to kconfig, so that option would be > harder to get accepted. So how does making the backlog value of 0 be unlimited solve the problem?

-Steve