From: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
To: Wieland Gmeiner <e8607062@student.tuwien.ac.at>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc6 1/2] New Syscall: get rlimits of any process (update)
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:40:51 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0508181239290.21390@excalibur.intercode> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1124381951.6251.14.camel@w2>
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Wieland Gmeiner wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 04:05 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> > Is there a realistic use case where this new system call is actually useful
> > and solves something that cannot be solved without it?
>
> As an example: It seems to be a common problem with numerous services to
> run out of available file descriptors. There are several workarounds to
> this problem, the most common seems to be increasing the systemwide max
> number of filedescriptors and restarting the service. If you google for
> e.g. 'linux "too many open files"' you get a bunch of mailing list
> support requests about that problem.
This is a system tuning issue, not justification for two new system calls.
- James
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James Morris
<jmorris@namei.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-18 16:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-18 0:57 Wieland Gmeiner
2005-08-18 1:02 ` [PATCH 2.6.13-rc6 2/2] New Syscall: set " Wieland Gmeiner
2005-08-18 1:57 ` Chris Wright
2005-08-18 15:48 ` Stephen Smalley
2005-08-18 1:17 ` [PATCH 2.6.13-rc6 1/2] New Syscall: get " Chris Wright
2005-08-18 2:05 ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-18 16:19 ` Wieland Gmeiner
2005-08-18 16:40 ` James Morris [this message]
2005-08-18 17:49 ` Alan Cox
2005-08-19 17:11 ` Elliot Lee
2005-08-23 5:52 ` Ulrich Drepper
2005-08-18 18:17 ` Lee Revell
2005-08-18 23:13 ` Alan Cox
2005-08-18 23:16 ` Lee Revell
2005-08-19 0:29 ` Alan Cox
2005-08-19 0:15 ` Lee Revell
2005-08-22 5:15 ` Eric W. Biederman
[not found] <1124326652.8359.3.camel@w2.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
[not found] ` <p7364u40zld.fsf@verdi.suse.de.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
[not found] ` <1124381951.6251.14.camel@w2.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2005-08-18 16:39 ` Andi Kleen
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