Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:16:20 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [patch 016/104] epoll: introduce resource usage limits |
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On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 03:51:01PM +1100, Bron Gondwana wrote: > On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:48 -0800, "Greg KH" <gregkh@suse.de> wrote: > > The default value for "max_user_instances" is set to 128, that should be enough too. > > Our fairly heavily loaded postfix backup mx (lots of spams rejected per day) hit this > limit running kernel 2.6.27.8. Any particular reason for it being as low as 128 > by default?
Something had to be picked :)
> This is a kvm virtual machine running on a reasonably beefy external box, but > with 2Gb RAM allocated to the mx instance because that's all kvm would let me > use last time I checked. We're using KVM so the local copy of the database is > a little further away from the "internet facing side" and so we can build each > machine with our standard FAI setup.
I would suggest just changing this default value then, it's a simple userspace configuration item, and for your boxes, it sounds like a larger value would be more suitable.
thanks,
greg k-h
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