Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 31 Aug 2002 23:51:35 +0100 | From | "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <> | Subject | Re: [patch 2.4.19] reboot on out-of-file handles |
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* 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.
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