Re: Interrupts vs signals - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Interrupts vs signals
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In response to Re: Interrupts vs signals  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
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On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 2:50 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> They can count, but only when used for network sockets or pipes ("slow
> devices" or whatever the posix language is). Disk IO doesn't count as that. So
> I don't think it'd be a huge issue.

Somehow the idea that the network is a slow device and the disk a fast
one does not seem like it's necessarily accurate on modern hardware,
but I guess the spec is what it is.

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Robert Haas
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