Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:30:21 -0800 (PST) | From | Davide Libenzi <> | Subject | Re: [patch] drop epoll max_user_instances and rely only on max_user_watches |
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On Sun, 1 Feb 2009, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> Hi Davide, > > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 7:54 AM, Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > > > >> Since max_user_instances was added in 2.6.28, and this is an ABI > >> change, I suggest this should go into .29-rc, so that > >> max_user_instances spends as little time in the wild as possible. > > > > Agreed, like I already told Andrew. Sorry Michael for the double change to > > the man page :/ > > So is the right change to the epoll(7) page (see > http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man7/epoll.7.html ) > to simply remive the text on max_user_instances: > > /proc/sys/fs/epoll/max_user_instances (since Linux 2.6.28) > This specifies an upper limit on the number of epoll > instances that can be created per real user ID. > > Or are other changes also required?
Yes. Plus, max_user_watches, instead of being 1/32 of lowmem, it's 4%. Just a detail.
- Davide
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