From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757173AbZB0Hao (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:30:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753267AbZB0Hag (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:30:36 -0500 Received: from anguilla.debian.or.at ([86.59.21.37]:60054 "EHLO anguilla.debian.or.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752474AbZB0Haf (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:30:35 -0500 Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:30:32 +0100 From: Peter Palfrader To: Frans Pop Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, libpam-modules@packages.debian.org, debian-admin@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: 2.6.28, rlimits, performance and debian etch Message-ID: <20090227073032.GG8217@anguilla.noreply.org> Mail-Followup-To: Frans Pop , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, libpam-modules@packages.debian.org, debian-admin@lists.debian.org References: <200902262248.26713.elendil@planet.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200902262248.26713.elendil@planet.nl> X-PGP: 1024D/94C09C7F 5B00 C96D 5D54 AEE1 206B AF84 DE7A AF6E 94C0 9C7F X-Request-PGP: http://www.palfrader.org/keys/94C09C7F.asc X-Accept-Language: de, en User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > > It has already been mentioned that this does not apply to the upcoming > > Debian 5.0 release (lenny); this patch is only present in the 4.0 > > release (etch), it was actually fixed in the development series to not > > use RLIM_INFINITY *because* previous kernels didn't support this and > > would cause pam_limits to throw log warnings. > > I've just migrated my home servers from Debian etch to lenny and bind9 now > gives me this: > > named[17207]: max open files (1024) is smaller than max sockets (4096) > > Redhat's BTS [1] tells me this is a kernel issue thatshould be solved [2] > by the "rlimit: permit setting RLIMIT_NOFILE to RLIM_INFINITY" patch in > 2.6.28. > > One of my servers (DNS slave) is running the standard Debian 2.6.26 > kernel, the other (DNS master) is running 2.6.29-rc6 so that does include > that patch. But both show the error! That patch has been reverted for 2.6.29 and 2.6.28.(5 or 6 or so). -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal http://www.palfrader.org/ | `. `' Operating System | `- http://www.debian.org/