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| author | Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> | 2008-02-06 01:37:16 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2008-02-06 10:41:06 -0800 |
| commit | 9cfe015aa424b3c003baba3841a60dd9b5ad319b (patch) | |
| tree | 5575e06efcf91018f860f2db43979e8e91aba1c3 /kernel/sysctl.c | |
| parent | 774ed22c21ab95d582dfff38560f11cf290baeb4 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-9cfe015aa424b3c003baba3841a60dd9b5ad319b.tar.gz lwn-9cfe015aa424b3c003baba3841a60dd9b5ad319b.zip | |
get rid of NR_OPEN and introduce a sysctl_nr_open
NR_OPEN (historically set to 1024*1024) actually forbids processes to open
more than 1024*1024 handles.
Unfortunatly some production servers hit the not so 'ridiculously high
value' of 1024*1024 file descriptors per process.
Changing NR_OPEN is not considered safe because of vmalloc space potential
exhaust.
This patch introduces a new sysctl (/proc/sys/fs/nr_open) wich defaults to
1024*1024, so that admins can decide to change this limit if their workload
needs it.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: export it for sparc64]
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sysctl.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sysctl.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index 5e2ad5bf88e2..86daaa26d120 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -1203,6 +1203,14 @@ static struct ctl_table fs_table[] = { .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec, }, { + .ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED, + .procname = "nr_open", + .data = &sysctl_nr_open, + .maxlen = sizeof(int), + .mode = 0644, + .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec, + }, + { .ctl_name = FS_DENTRY, .procname = "dentry-state", .data = &dentry_stat, |