From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PATCH: 2.5.40 sane minimum proc count
Date: 07 Oct 2002 14:44:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1033998283.25063.0.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021007142700.I18545@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 14:27, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> why not simply:
>
> max_threads = mempages / (THREAD_SIZE/PAGE_SIZE) / 8;
>
> + /* we need to allow at least 20 threads to boot a system */
> + if (max_threads < 20)
> + max_threads = 20;
> +
> init_task.rlim[RLIMIT_NPROC].rlim_cur = max_threads/2;
> init_task.rlim[RLIMIT_NPROC].rlim_max = max_threads/2;
>
> i think we're going to see more kernel threads with 2.5 than we did with 2.4;
> let's be safer.
Much better, will switch
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