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On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 10:47:48PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> > Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 12:11:20 +0530 > > > On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 12:39:04PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > > > I think we should seriously consider these patches for 2.6.16 > > > > Isn't it a little too late in the 2.6.16 cycle ? I would have > > liked a little more time in -mm. Anyway, it is Linus' call. > > I can refresh the patches and submit against latest mainline > > if Linus and Andrew want. > > Users can run widely published programs to make one's system run out > of file descriptors and make the machine totaly unusable. > > If that doesn't qualify for something to fix for 2.6.16 I don't know > what does. :-) Not many people have access to shiny new 8-core 32-thread CPUs (/me turns green saying this) :-) To be honest I thought Linus' earlier fix that increased RCU maximum batch size to 1000 had more or less fixed the issue for most people. I haven't seen it in my testing, but I agree that we have to take OOMs seriously. I am just being paranoic here. Thanks Dipankar - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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