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Eric Dumazet 9cfe015aa4 get rid of NR_OPEN and introduce a sysctl_nr_open
NR_OPEN (historically set to 1024*1024) actually forbids processes to open
more than 1024*1024 handles.

Unfortunatly some production servers hit the not so 'ridiculously high
value' of 1024*1024 file descriptors per process.

Changing NR_OPEN is not considered safe because of vmalloc space potential
exhaust.

This patch introduces a new sysctl (/proc/sys/fs/nr_open) wich defaults to
1024*1024, so that admins can decide to change this limit if their workload
needs it.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: export it for sparc64]
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:06 -08:00
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acpi include/acpi/: Spelling fixes 2008-02-03 17:07:16 +02:00
asm-alpha alpha: fix warning by fixing flush_tlb_kernel_range() 2008-02-05 09:44:22 -08:00
asm-arm add mm argument to pte/pmd/pud/pgd_free 2008-02-05 09:44:18 -08:00
asm-avr32 read_current_timer() cleanups 2008-02-06 10:41:02 -08:00
asm-blackfin remove mm_{ptov,vtop}() 2008-02-06 10:41:01 -08:00
asm-cris cris: remove unused __dummy, CONST_ADDR and ADDR from bitops.h 2008-02-05 09:44:24 -08:00
asm-frv timerfd: fix remaining architectures 2008-02-05 14:37:15 -08:00
asm-generic remove support for un-needed _extratext section 2008-02-06 10:41:01 -08:00
asm-h8300 remove mm_{ptov,vtop}() 2008-02-06 10:41:01 -08:00
asm-ia64 Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6 2008-02-05 10:24:52 -08:00
asm-m32r timerfd: fix remaining architectures 2008-02-05 14:37:15 -08:00
asm-m68k cleanup after APUS removal 2008-02-06 10:41:01 -08:00
asm-m68knommu remove mm_{ptov,vtop}() 2008-02-06 10:41:01 -08:00
asm-mips add mm argument to pte/pmd/pud/pgd_free 2008-02-05 09:44:18 -08:00
asm-parisc add mm argument to pte/pmd/pud/pgd_free 2008-02-05 09:44:18 -08:00
asm-powerpc scheduled OSS driver removal 2008-02-06 10:41:02 -08:00
asm-ppc add mm argument to pte/pmd/pud/pgd_free 2008-02-05 09:44:18 -08:00
asm-s390 taskstats scaled time cleanup 2008-02-06 10:41:00 -08:00
asm-sh timerfd: fix remaining architectures 2008-02-05 14:37:15 -08:00
asm-sparc add mm argument to pte/pmd/pud/pgd_free 2008-02-05 09:44:18 -08:00
asm-sparc64 read_current_timer() cleanups 2008-02-06 10:41:02 -08:00
asm-um uml: LDT mutex conversion 2008-02-05 09:44:31 -08:00
asm-v850 remove mm_{ptov,vtop}() 2008-02-06 10:41:01 -08:00
asm-x86 read_current_timer() cleanups 2008-02-06 10:41:02 -08:00
asm-xtensa add mm argument to pte/pmd/pud/pgd_free 2008-02-05 09:44:18 -08:00
crypto
keys
linux get rid of NR_OPEN and introduce a sysctl_nr_open 2008-02-06 10:41:06 -08:00
math-emu
media include/media/: Spelling fixes 2008-02-03 17:19:47 +02:00
mtd
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2008-02-05 10:09:07 -08:00
pcmcia pcmcia: replace kio_addr_t with unsigned int everywhere 2008-02-05 09:44:08 -08:00
rdma
rxrpc
scsi include/scsi/: Spelling fixes 2008-02-03 17:47:00 +02:00
sound [ALSA] version 1.0.16rc2 2008-01-31 17:40:18 +01:00
video
xen x86: page.h: make pte_t a union to always include 2008-01-30 13:32:57 +01:00
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