Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:40:51 -0400 (EDT) | From | James Morris <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc6 1/2] New Syscall: get rlimits of any process (update) |
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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.
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