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SubjectRe: [PATCH] get rid of NR_OPEN and introduce a sysctl_nr_open
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On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:09:19 +0100, Eric Dumazet said:

> Changing NR_OPEN is not considered safe because of vmalloc space potential
> exhaust.

Verbiage about this point...


> +nr_open
> +-------
> +
> +Denotes the maximum number of file-handles a process can
> +allocate. Default value is 1024*1024 (1048576) which should be
> +enough for most machines. Actual limit depends on RLIMIT_NOFILE
> +resource limit.
> +

should probably be in here - can you add something of the form "Setting this
too high can cause vmalloc failures, especially on smaller-RAM machines",
and/or *say* how much RAM the default takes? Sure, it's 1M entries, but
my tuning on a 2G-RAM machine will differ if these are byte-sized, or 128-byte
sized - one is off in a corner, the other is 1/16th of my entire memory.

Also, would it be useful to *lower* the value drastically, if you know a priori
that no process should get up to 1K file handles, much less 1M? Does that
buy me anything different than setting RLIMIT_NOFILE=1024?
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