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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: e8607062@student.tuwien.ac.at
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc6 1/2] New Syscall: get rlimits of any process (update)
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 18:49:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1124387342.16072.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1124381951.6251.14.camel@w2>

> Also some documention for specific services show that there is a need to
> adjust rlimits per process at runtime, e.g.:
> http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-11.html#ss11.4
> http://slacksite.com/apache/logging.html
> http://staff.in2.hr/denis/oracle/10g1install_fedora3_en.html#n2

Perhaps those application authors should provide a management interface
to do so within the soft limit range at least. Its not clear to me that
growing the fd array on a process is even safe. Some programs do size
arrays at startup after querying the rlimit data.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-08-18 17:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-18  0:57 [PATCH 2.6.13-rc6 1/2] New Syscall: get rlimits of any process (update) Wieland Gmeiner
2005-08-18  1:02 ` [PATCH 2.6.13-rc6 2/2] New Syscall: set " Wieland Gmeiner
2005-08-18  1:57   ` Chris Wright
2005-08-18 15:48   ` Stephen Smalley
2005-08-18  1:17 ` [PATCH 2.6.13-rc6 1/2] New Syscall: get " Chris Wright
2005-08-18  2:05 ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-18 16:19   ` Wieland Gmeiner
2005-08-18 16:40     ` James Morris
2005-08-18 17:49     ` Alan Cox [this message]
2005-08-19 17:11       ` Elliot Lee
2005-08-23  5:52       ` Ulrich Drepper
2005-08-18 18:17     ` Lee Revell
2005-08-18 23:13       ` Alan Cox
2005-08-18 23:16         ` Lee Revell
2005-08-19  0:29           ` Alan Cox
2005-08-19  0:15             ` Lee Revell
2005-08-22  5:15 ` Eric W. Biederman
     [not found] <1124326652.8359.3.camel@w2.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found] ` <p7364u40zld.fsf@verdi.suse.de.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found]   ` <1124381951.6251.14.camel@w2.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2005-08-18 16:39     ` Andi Kleen

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