From: Tim Hockin <thockin@sun.com>
To: "Ogden, Aaron A." <aogden@unocal.com>
Cc: autofs@linux.kernel.org, Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Subject: Re: RE: autofs scalability
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 11:43:23 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031203194323.GB10772@sun.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6AB920CC10586340BE1674976E0A991DE22E18@slexch2.sugarland.unocal.com>
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 01:19:27PM -0600, Ogden, Aaron A. wrote:
> 'unnamed device' limit has been raised from 256 to 4096 in kernel 2.6,
> can anyone confirm this? If this is the case the only barrier left to
> remove is the RPC port limitation of ~800 open ports. If the
> connections were multiplexed such that all connections to a given server
> used the same port then 800 ports would stretch a lot farther than they
> do now...
We're investigating the 800 limit reasoning. 2.6.(last I looked) has not
removed the 256 limit, but has made it so that it CAN BE removed. We hav a
prelim patch for that, which I wan tot rework, some, maybe.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-03 19:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-03 19:19 autofs scalability Ogden, Aaron A.
2003-12-03 19:43 ` Tim Hockin [this message]
2003-12-04 1:37 ` Ian Kent
2003-12-04 19:12 ` Tim Hockin
2003-12-04 20:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-12-04 22:37 ` Tim Hockin
2003-12-04 23:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-12-04 23:12 ` Tim Hockin
2003-12-03 20:01 ` Mike Waychison
2003-12-04 1:35 ` Ian Kent
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