From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760902AbXFQTHw (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jun 2007 15:07:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758182AbXFQTHm (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jun 2007 15:07:42 -0400 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:36324 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760722AbXFQTHj (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jun 2007 15:07:39 -0400 Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 21:07:10 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Pavel Machek Cc: Peter Zijlstra , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Ollie Wild , Andrew Morton , Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [patch 0/3] no MAX_ARG_PAGES -v2 Message-ID: <20070617190710.GA20682@elte.hu> References: <20070613100334.635756997@chello.nl> <20070617183213.GA3892@ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070617183213.GA3892@ucw.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -2.0 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-2.0 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.1.7 -2.0 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > This patch-set aims at removing the current limit on argv+env space > > aka. MAX_ARG_PAGES. > > Thanks a lot for solving this properly. I have been upping current > limits to some insane ammounts to work around this. seconded! I have tried the patchset and it works great for me. This limitation of Linux has bothered me almost since i started using Linux more than a decade ago (i remember having run into it when running a script on an overly large directory), and it's perhaps the oldest still existing userspace-visible limitations of Linux. It was also a really hard nut to crack. Kudos Peter! I really cant wait to see this in 2.6.23 :-) Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Ingo