Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 Feb 2018 10:56:48 -0800 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Warn the user when they could overflow mapcount |
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On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 01:05:33PM -0500, Daniel Micay wrote: > The standard map_max_count / pid_max are very low and there are many > situations where either or both need to be raised.
[snip good reasons]
> I do think the default value in the documentation should be fixed but > if there's a clear problem with raising these it really needs to be > fixed. Google either of the sysctl names and look at all the people > running into issues and needing to raise them. It's only going to > become more common to raise these with people trying to use lots of > fine-grained sandboxing. Process-per-request is back in style.
So we should make the count saturate instead, then? That's going to be interesting.
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