From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <gilbertd@treblig.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2.4.19] reboot on out-of-file handles
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 23:51:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020831225135.GH721@gallifrey> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1030826468.3582.25.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>
* Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk) wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-08-31 at 21:16, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Please find below a patch that adds the ability to panic if you run
> > out of file handles (by setting /proc/sys/fs/file-max-panic to none-0).
>
> You can already do this reliably in user space as part of your watchdog
> daemon processing.
Ah - good idea.
The only thing that doesn't do (which my patch doesn't do much of), is
log the state of the system at failure - I'd really like to know what
ate all the filehandles.
Dave
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-31 20:16 Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2002-08-31 20:41 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-31 22:51 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert [this message]
2002-08-31 22:58 ` Alan Cox
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